Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble started at the Chrysler Corp.'s huge Dodge main plant. When the company fired eight airplane gear cutters, 13,500 workers walked out. Production of tank transmissions, trucks, antiaircraft guns, engines for B-29 Superfortresses and rocket shells ground to a halt. A war of words ensued. The company charged the eight dismissed men with loafing and insubordination, said they would not produce 184 gears on machines capable of 225. The union charged that the rate had been raised from 108, lifted the cry of "speedup," said Chrysler was deliberately stirring up trouble in the hope of wrecking...
Engine Design. Since it has only one moving gear (the compressor and turbine, mounted on the same shaft), the jet en gine needs little oil. The plane needs no warmup, is ready to fly 30 seconds after the motor starts. The pilot, relieved of worries about oil pressure, fuel mixture, propeller pitch, etc., has only three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail...
Seaman First Class Leon LeRoy, 18, had an emergency leave and a No. 3 priority. He was on his way to Antioch, Calif. to comfort his recently widowed mother. At Memphis Bluejacket LeRoy was told to get his gear off the plane: his No. 3 priority had been trumped by a No. 1; 300 pounds of critical material was" coming aboard. A Seabee and an Army technical sergeant, both on their way to ailing wives...
Captain Lee Maxwell of our San Francisco office is another of our men who wears the D.F.C. (As pilot of the "Puffing Hussy," he has gone on 51 bombing raids, once brought his crew safely home from an unescorted mission even though enemy fighters had shot away his landing gear. Only casualty was the toy elephant he carried as a mascot.) Second Lieut. N. Robert Drake of our newsstand department has the D.F.C. and the Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters (a bombardier, Drake was shot down over Sicily, captured by the Nazis - for 18 months now has been...
Since then the A.A.F. has found the pickup just the ticket for rescuing stranded soldiers from rubber boats, jungles, remote islands. Pickup gear-ropes, poles, harness -is dropped first. The man below then sets up his rig, waits confidently for the plane to come back, hook on and whisk him away. The A.A.F. is already experimenting with fast-flying combat planes to replace the slow-flying put-puts now used...