Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable echo of the old. Coincidence is used just as recklessly; the old fictional virtues of pluck and luck dominate every page. But Tom Jr. has it all over his proud dad as an inventor. Where the old hero aroused the admiration of his fans by changing the gear ratio to get unheard-of speed out of his motorcycle, his son completes a revolutionary radioactivity detector overnight. In 1910, Tom had his readers chewing their nails when he ascended in a crude dirigible. In 1954's Tom Swift and His Flying Lab, the alert hero finds the world...
...East China Sea over hundreds of miles was plowed into moving, triangular furrows as the great U.S. amphibious force bore toward Okinawa. In the center of the mighty array were 1,213 vessels carrying 182,000 assault troops and their gear of war. Supporting the transport and LSTs was the largest fleet concentration in naval history-nearly 1,500 war vessels, more than 40 aircraft carriers, 18 battleships, scores of cruisers. On the outer ring of the armada, far beyond the men on the bridges of the lordly carriers, rode the destroyers, the "small boys" of the fleet, charged with...
...right language to the Farm Bureau, the largest (1,626,632 families) farm organization in the U.S. For six years the Farm Bureau's president, an Iowa hog farmer named Allan Kline, has been arguing for flexible price supports. Kline subscribes to the theory that farmers would gear their production to supply and demand rather than to Government bounty if support prices ranged from 75% of parity when a crop is in surplus to 90% of parity when it is scarce...
...various depths along the 1/16 -in steel strand that marked the descent. Standing by for possible rescue work was a Coast Guard cutter. In the third boat was an oceanographer of the University of Miami's marine laboratories.The oceanographer would trace Root's descent with echo sounding gear, just to make the record official. As an unofficial measure. Root planned to pull a marker off the cable at 430 ft.: "That's the one I'll have...
Dean gathered up his scattered units, got them and their gear on ships and planes. On July 4, after his arrival in Korea, he established his headquarters as commander of all ground forces. Immediately he went north, into action...