Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sale, as junk, four Liberty ships war-damaged beyond repair. Two of them had been torpedoed, one had been bombed, one had crashed into another vessel, was gutted by fire. If the ships are bought for scrap, purchasers must agree to destroy all motors, engines and other salvageable gear. Reason: to keep these items off an already glutted market. So far the Maritime Commission has received bids for two of the ships: $3,100 and $9,100 (they had cost upward of $1.5 million apiece...
There was emotion, too, but of a different sort, in the hearts of the 11th Airborne Division as they dropped down on Atsugi, of the 4th Marines as they plunged ashore at Yokosuka, heavily laden with battle gear that was to be useless. This was the last beachhead, and they hit it standing up. There was no fight left in the enemy...
...will handle germs by slipping rubber-gloved hands into hand holes, under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals, never the other way. On leaving at night, the worker will shed his laboratory gear, wash, examine his body for ticks in a six-sided mirror, put on his civvies and go home feeling as safe as any germ-worker...
Forced to move from Peabody House into a more spacious suite in Dudley Hall two weeks ago, the Veterans' Guidance Center is now installed and operating at high gear...
This week, at the request of Yugoslavia, the U.S. Military Mission packed up and left. Next to leave is the Typhus Commission, because the Yugoslavs feel that the danger of epidemic is now over. Moving into high gear is UNRRA with a staff of 150, headed by a Russian. Most of the other members of the commission are Americans. The Yugoslavs would like 300,000 tons of materials monthly. What they are getting now will shortly be increased to 175,000 tons a month...