Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the first victims in these groups packed their gear and got ready to go home. They included a brigadier general and a lieutenant colonel. How many had already got the ax, the War Department would not say. But all the Army officers in field outfits have been told that whether they stay in uniform or get out depends on the showing they make in this fall's maneuvers...
...first tests, North Carolina shed only superficial skin. Light doors on deck cleaning-gear lockers warped and hung from their hinges in her hot breath, and strip molding from the wardroom overhead dropped down with a jangling crash. But damage-control crews found no major shaking-up. In her first try, North Carolina did better than many an oldtime battlewagon does in target practice...
...fuselages should be started; then Bofors 40-mm. anti-aircraft guns should be in production. Already Chrysler's engineering department and laboratories are working 85% of their time on defense, developing a 2,000 h.p. airplane engine, a 500 h.p. liquid-cooled tank engine; a new airplane landing gear strut, etc. Half the 900 machine tools used to make the Bofors gun are being taken from the automobile assembly lines. Eleven different Chrysler divisions are supplying parts for the bombers. The 250 Army trucks that come off Dodge production lines every day represent better than half the total daily...
...month are coming off the line, complete to the last machine gun. They start to grow in an older and smaller (827,000 sq. ft.) plant across town at Tonawanda where fuselages are built, engines and armor are installed. At the new airport plant wings and landing gear are added before they are flown away...
...next week "to tell the people of America what is needed for the war effort. . . ." ∙ ∙ Parachutist Max Schmeling will referee a prize fight in Brussels next week. He's still on "recovery leave." ∙ ∙ When veteran Speed Flyer Laura Ingalls landed at Albuquerque her landing gear crumpled and the ship did a headstand. Isolationist Laura, uninjured, promptly blamed her defective landing gear on "this system of priorities...