Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More important than physical plant or gear has been the caliber of the men who have staffed the hospital and, more recently, the whole center. More than ever, they honor Dr. Brown's dictum that the child is not just a little man. In the early years of the century, Surgeon William Ladd wrote a new chapter in the history of his dexterous profession by developing ways to revamp malformed intestinal and bile tracts in infants. Neurosurgeon Frank Ingraham has devised a highly ingenious method of draining the fluid in hydrocephalic children from the spinal canal to the kidneys...
Although housing starts will probably remain below last year's rate, the economy was still in high gear: retail sales, were up 4% for the week, steel pushed at 99.6% of its capacity, corporate dividends were up 15% for the first eight months, employment was at an alltime high of 67 million. And one index was pleasantly down: consumer prices dipped .02% last month, breaking a five-month climb. The news was tempered with a sobering thought that expected price increases for meat, apparel, coal, haircuts and automobiles (see below) may raise September's cost of living...
...twin engines, a 300-m.p.h. top speed, bristled with two 37-mm. cannon, four .50-cal. machine guns. No sooner was it aloft than Bell was busy with a radical single-engined fighter, the P-39. It was the first single-engined U.S. fighter with tricycle landing gear, had a 37-mm. cannon firing through the hollow prop hub. Expanding from 100 workers to 55,000 at five plants around the U.S. in World War II, Bell built 12,900 fighters (many of which were lend-leased to the Russians), and by 1944 was in production with another innovation...
Typical of such frontier news sources, he discovered, is Churchill (pop. about 1,100), a fast-growing grain port and supply point for the strategically important eastern Arctic. Nearby Fort Churchill is a cold-weather proving ground for Canadian and U.S. military weapons, gear and clothing, and has been designated for next year as an observation station for the International Geophysical Year...
Monsoons in Calcutta. The steering gear broke down and had to be replaced. The sun beating through the window of the jeep turned it into a galloping greenhouse. "I got her livable," says Carlin, "at the cost of chronic bronchitis. A port with an air scoop played a jet of air into my left...