Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build some full-scale reactors adjoining AEC plants, thus avoid competing with private power as they would if they were scattered throughout the U.S. At week's end it looked as though some such middle way might have to be found to get the reactor program in high gear-or Congress might pass the Gore bill, which was only narrowly defeated last year...
Such scientific gear still does not answer the No. 1 question: Is there anything in the tomb? So Lerici pulls another technical trick. With a gasoline-powered drill he drills a 3-in. hole through the earth and the roof of the tomb and inserts an aluminum tube. Inside the tube is a 16-mm. camera with an electronic flash. Starting at compass north and looking all around, it takes twelve or more pictures of the tomb's interior, showing whether it has been looted or whether it still contains articles worth digging...
...Maseratis have had their slow moments in the 30 years since; Alfieri is dead and his brothers have long since sold the factory. But the hand-tooled cars still carry the family name, and they are again almost unbeatable. Last week, as the racing season shifted noisily into high gear, the experts were already predicting that 1957 will be the Year of the Maserati...
...road-racing fancy with his Sedici Cilindri a 16-cylinder job that set a 152.9 m.p.h. record at Cremona in 1929. But the Sedici Cilindri was a bastard car, with a power plant made of a pair of eight-cylinder engines, the two crankshafts coupled in a single gear box. The new twelve-cylinder Maserati is the precocious, all-in-one brainchild of Engineer Guilio Alfieri. Every part was specifically designed for the new racing...
...precarious position. If they continue their drive to clean their own house, they stand a good chance of dividing it. Nevertheless, the housecleaning, painful as it may be, must take place. If the Senate Committee, state agencies, and federal agencies like the Interstate Commerce Commission would move into high gear, labor's work could be done more quickly and more efficiently...