Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...district, tramping streets, ringing doorbells, holding press conferences and speaking at one rally after another (100 in the last ten days of the campaign). To back his cause and secure Hammersmith, Lord Woolton ("Lord Woof-Woof" to the Laborites) put the whole machinery of the national party into high gear. Money, pamphlets and speakers poured into the district. From almost every street corner Tory sound trucks and mobile movie units blared out statistics compiled at the Conservative Political Education Center. Telephone boxes, butcher shops, dance halls, pubs and public lavatories blossomed with posters asking a vote for Fell...
...nation, was probably hollering more than it hurt. One cab driver wailed, "I'm slowly starving to death"-but he was making $45 a week. One shopkeeper summed it up: "Business is only fair, but it could be a lot worse." And out on Falihee Road, a gear-cutting company was building a new $4,000,000 plant. That meant 400 new jobs, when it was completed...
...Interruption. Disregarding the inevitable, the Nationalist government pushed ahead with plans for a last-ditch stand. All ordnance plants in the Shanghai-Nanking area, much light industry and operational headquarters of civil and military airlines were being moved to Taiwan and Canton. The Communications Ministry was shifting personnel and gear to Kiangsi, Hunan and Kwangtung...
...about a mile from the Pacific Ocean. Golf balls by the dozens whizzed down Riviera's lush fairways; crowds of gawkers hustled along among the eucalyptus trees; caddies were busy as bird dogs. The $15,000 Los Angeles Open, which puts golf's winter circuit in high gear, opens there this week...
...money." If there was a Businessman of the Year it was Automaker Paul G. Hoffman, who left his job as president of Studebaker and climbed into the driver's seat of ECA, the biggest politico-business enterprise in world history. He got it running with a minimum of gear clashing, and Congress found little need for back-seat driving...