Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sits. The University was satisfied; the commuters were content with the best they thought they could get; but work around PBH came to a standstill. Commuters were everywhere and the social service work specified by the deed of trust under which the House was given slowed down to low gear and threatened to stop altogether, during the very post-depression years when it was most needed...
...Heckler Jack Oakie's face. Mexico City police hunting a stolen car stopped a sedan, apologized to Carol of Rumania. They had the wrong number. Passenger Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s nose was buried in a book when his plane ripped through a treetop, mangled the landing gear. At Philadelphia it did a groundloop. Declared Morgenthau: "I had no fears...
From Pills to Gears. Reason most powdered metal parts are small is that pressures of from five to 100 tons per square inch are needed to force the minute particles close enough together to become locked into a genuine solid. Thus a solid gear with a 4-in. diameter would have a top surface of twelve square inches and might require a pressure of as high as 400 to 1,200 tons. The largest presses now in use are of 80-ton capacity, although 400-ton, 600-ton, 800-ton machines are on order. The pressure needed can be lowered...
...quieter than clangy solid metal. Besides offering these advantages, this part surprised engineers by being easier and cheaper to make from powder than by former methods. From this and similar pressed parts a wave of interest in powder metallurgy at once swept U.S. industry. First powdered-metal automotive gear appeared in the oil pump of the 1940 Oldsmobile, and this year more new parts have been made from powders...
...subdued hum everywhere, far and near, as if hundreds of cars were on the roads and lanes. I was so restless . . . . I got up and dressed and went out, up the road a little way into the fields. I could hear, faintly, how car after car changed gear as it went up the steep hill out of the town towards the road that runs west. There was a most extraordinary feeling in the air as if the whole country, from end to end, was alert and waiting. The very houses and trees and hedges seemed to be crouching down against...