Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovery was good news to the 800 uranium prospectors now wandering over the vast Colorado Plateau. Some are gnarled, weather-beaten desert rats packing their gear on a mule, looking for telltale yellow uranium streaks on the faces of weathered cliffs. Others are pink-cheeked amateurs with Geiger counters who clamber over the rocks, listening with ear phones for radioactive clicks, thus providing a source of innocent merriment (see cut). At Marysvale, claims have been staked on every inch of land for eight miles around Segmiller's strike, and the town citizens are now spending almost all their time...
...Chug-Chug, the cleanup man, Williams stayed in full public view while skirting the intricate web of Navy bureaucracy. He never drew a paycheck. He made enough money for shaving gear and an occasional movie by setting up pins in the bowling alley. Sometimes, he gave a helping hand to a buddy who worked in a supply center across from the base stacking goods...
...roads through the depths of the Turfan Depression, one of the world's lowest spots, and around the vast Takla-Makan desert. The clinical thermometer in Vincoe Paxton's first-aid kit rose to 108°. The brakes on one of the jeeps failed, and its steering gear broke. Then its frame collapsed...
...Yukon Flats the next morning. Peering out, passengers saw a frozen and desolate scene: a big black river wandering amid a lacework of sloughs, and empty leagues of snow and spruce. The planes landed on a sandbar, took off hurriedly after the muffled Argonauts had hauled their gear out into the sub-zero Arctic wind. More fares ($90 round trip, $50 one way for 165 miles) were waiting...
Jalopies travel in second gear all the way because there is no pickup in third. They hit 45 to 50 miles an hour on a quarter mile tar track. Each driver has his own favorite technique, depending on his ability...