Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hmmm. Coming at a time when most Americans are thinking about death in battle, Tender Comrade makes an arduous pretense of facing that tragic fact. But most of the film is a low-gear report about the hard times and good times of War Wives Rogers, Patricia Collinge, Kim Hunter, Ruth Hussey and Mady Christians. They work in an airplane plant, eat and sleep in a house which they run "like a democracy...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery cruised around Britain in high gear last week, visiting camps, inspecting troops, giving forthright pep talks and conferring with field officers who will lead the invasion forces. Monty traveled, as he does everything, with dash and authority. He had a special train, his regular staff, a picked detail of twenty ATS (British WACs) who served as cooks and orderlies...
...Superfortress is powered by Wright 2,000-h.p. engines, has three-bladed propellers, cruises at about 250 m.p.h. at 25,000 ft. Flight says "it retains the general features of the Fortress, but it has a tricycle landing gear with double tires on each wheel. It needs them. Flight puts the fully loaded weight of the B-29 at between 50 and 60 tons-about twice the weight of a Fortress or British Lancaster...
...months ago, 144 put in at a Florida base for repairs. Another C-54 rolled up beside her, needing a new landing-gear nosewheel. Repairmen looted 144. Their idea was that a new parts shipment could re-equip 144 later...
From pontoon gear, the Navy's all-purpose "mechano" set, they have built landing barges, floating drydocks, piers, floats for cranes to transform the sleepy, down-at-heel French colonial port of Noumea, New Caledonia, into one of the Navy's greatest advance bases...