Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government, nosed out of an Alexandria dock, slipped through the Suez Canal, down the length of the Red Sea, finally emerged into the Indian Ocean. An echo-recording apparatus in the chartroom measured the time required for the sound to bounce back from the sea floor. With echo-sounding gear Expedition Leader R. B. Seymour Sewell and his staff systematically charted the ocean floor. In the Gulf of Aden they found ten ranges of theretofore unknown submarine hills. On the bottom of the Indian Ocean they discovered two great mountain chains, with a deep valley between, and in one place...
Captions explained the pictures. The man was a Pilot Erich Kocher. He flew by lung-power, utilizing the rotor principle. Strapped to his chest was an assembly of two horizontal rotors. He had skiis on his feet for landing gear, and a finlike tail attached to his stern. By blowing into a box on his chest, Pilot Kocher made the rotors revolve. The turning rotors created a suction ahead, into which Pilot Kocher & apparatus sailed gaily, while his excited friends trotted after him. The august New York Times, proud of its minute coverage of aviation, printed the picture...
...solution which will be sought will be in the direction of discriminating between those industries which must have continued protection and those in which competition from abroad will be looked upon as benefiting the American consumer. Temporarily it may throw some businesses out of gear and add to unemployment, but the Roosevelt Administration has nearly a billion dollars a year to spend on relief and doles and on transporting populations around from urban to rural areas, or vice versa, depending on the setting up of new industries, perhaps, or new services...
...armies would ever come to the point of sighting each other. "Most likely air forces will strike in the first hour of the next war before mobilization has begun. . . . The intricate mobilization machinery of the modern horde army is the easiest thing in the world to throw out of gear. The centralization of water, light, heat and power supplies all make dislocation easier and paralysis more certain." Scarcely had these gentlemen spoken before the Austrian riots wrote finis to Great Britain's attempts at reaching immediate disarmament agreements. Rendered particularly negative was a meeting of Disarmament Conference officials called...
...Church has a moderator but no ponderous machinery to run things from the top. With New England firmness the individual churches do their own thinking and talking. This church last week was the first to come out against the scheme of Chicago's Adolph Oettinger Goodwin to gear piety with business in such a way that church folk would get rebates for buying selected merchandise (TIME...