Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chrysler's Plymouth division began production last week of a new semiautomatic hydraulic transmission system similar to Dodge's fluid drive. With it, the clutch is used only to get into high gear and reverse; after that, no shifting is needed. Plymouth, which will get into full production by April, expects to sell Hy-Drive on 40% of its 1953 output. Cost as optional equipment: $145.80, or at least $30 cheaper than the automatic drives of competitors...
Freshman basketball moves into second gear this week with Holworthy leading the National League, undefeated in four games. Grays follows with no losses in three games. Hollis tops the American League with a 4 and 0 record...
...surface when it is moving rapidly. As soon as the plane is in the air, the hydro-ski retracts into its belly, giving it the low-drag flight of a land-based jet. Chief advantages of the ski-jet: it is not burdened with the bulky conventional landing gear; it can operate without need for elaborate airdromes...
...Aircraft Engineering Corp. last week showed off its newest Navy plane, the 52F-I, a submarine killer. The 52F-I, powered by two Wright 1,450-h.p. piston engines, looks like a lumpy cigar and is built for range, not speed. But it is probably crammed with more electronic gear than any other U.S. warplane; its search equipment can locate a completely submerged submarine by picking up the sub's magnetic field. And when it finds a sub, it has a type of guided missile to blast...
Checking Account. In Ada, Ohio, after National Bank President Anson Gear was held up at gun point while thieves robbed his bank, the board of directors conducted a special audit to determine the losses ($7,037), then filed charges that President Gear had embezzled $17,500 over the past eight years...