Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground when his starboard motor quit cold. He was past the point where he could plump down on the airport; he had to go on. Quickly he feathered the prop on the dead engine, thus killed its racking rotation, ruinous drag. Co-pilot William Riley snapped up the landing gear. Ahead was the valley of the Kanawha River where the old but still snappy Boeing would have plenty of room to gain some altitude. But also ahead was a high tension line and Russell Wright knew he could not clear it. He eased to the left, squeaked over another power...
...machine as sleek and carefully designed as a Spitfire. Rolling through the door the B-19 looked even bigger than she had in the hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared the top of the door. And no wonder. For standing in take-off position, the top of her rudder is more than 42 ft. above the ground, higher than an ordinary three-story building...
...fall of France had another important effect. The Germans seized certain French vessels which had been equipped with secret British anti-submarine devices, notably the supersonic detector called ASDIC. A study of this gear enabled the Germans to develop new tactics (TIME, March...
Canada's war effort last week showed belated signs of shifting into high gear. Into the driver's seat of the important Merchant Shipbuilding and Shipping Program moved Harvey Reginald MacMillan, a harddriving, hardheaded lumberman who believes in getting things done. No business-as-usual fuddyduddy, MacMillan is a reminder that Canada also produced Lord Beaverbrook. Says he: "This war demonstrates that no one owns his property, that one's job and standard of living are all at the service of the State. . . . War is the greatest creator of social revolution. Woe to ... the greedy reactionaries...
...Carnegie-Illinois Steel, Bethlehem, American Rolling Mill, American Steel & Wire, Republic Steel, National Lead, Mesta Machine: synchronous condensers, generators, switch gear and electrical equipment...