Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Navy described its version of the gadget that is stealing the test pilot's job. The cockpit of the plane to be tested is crammed with instruments and radio equipment. Part of the gear controls the plane engine, flight controls, landing gear, etc., by radio signals. The rest, by radio and television, reports the plane's performance in the air, and does it more completely than any pilot could...
...Named after the U.S. light cruiser Milwaukee, whose officers discovered it with the sound gear...
Horse Power. In Morrison, Ill., Horsewoman Joan Potter was slightly bruised and her horse slightly cut in a collision with a bus, which suffered a broken windshield, two smashed headlights, a damaged steering gear...
Kennedy had testified that Redin had pumped him for information about the Yellowstone, its steering gear, machinery, radar; Redin, he swore, had paid him $250, had told him "Speed counts, it means thousands of dollars...
...gullible Quebeckers. One investor, a Montreal physician, reportedly bit to the tune of $20,000. Since the atom bomb was top secret, the peddlers were mum about the way it was to be commercialized. But their fancy, engraved stock looked mighty pretty. A chunk of "deactivated bomb," a gear or two from an airplane motor, parts of a small lathe were more concrete come-ons. Provincial police, not impressed, arrested two atom-stock sellers. Still at large: the president of Atom...