Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...designers call "delta configuration." The strain of high-speed flight tends to bend the airframe out of line. Without adding too much weight., the triangular structure can be built stiff enough to eliminate this danger. A relatively thin wing and its short fuselage-have room for fuel tanks, landing gear and auxiliary equipment...
...Leonardo wrung some amazing realities. He took up military engineering, and invented prototypes of the machine gun, the tank, the explosive shell, the submarine. Turning to municipal planning, he conceived a city with two-level highways. He designed the first power loom, the first rolling mill, the first differential gear, the first picture projector. His studies in anatomy, hydraulics, mechanics, optics carried him centuries ahead of his day. Even his amusements made history: he invented a musical instrument that anticipated the harpsichord; he improved the printing press, rigged a style of oil lamp that was used until the 19th century...
...marines were none too sure that they would get out of China themselves. But they packed the bones with their own gear, shipped everything on the Manchurian railway and planned to meet an American transport at the coastal town of Chinwangtao. A hospital corpsman was designated as escort for the bones, but the escort missed the train. A few days later marines, train, and transport were all in Japanese hands...
...part of Charlie Wilson's gamble -part of his policy, in fact- was to build up the U.S. productive capacity so that, in the event of all-out war, U.S. industry could shift to all-out war production without stripping a gear. In this expansion, the U.S. was successful to a degree realized by few at home and almost no one abroad. "Dynamic," often a businessman's cliche, was the right word for U.S. industry...
Across the U.S., an organized Protestant drive to block the appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican was getting into high gear. Items last week: ¶ In Atlanta, the general board of the National Council of Churches (29 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox religious groups) named a six-man committee to help channel grass-roots opposition, make sure it reaches the ears of Congress.* ¶ On the West Coast, Author Paul (American Freedom and Catholic Power) Blanshard was in the midst of a nationwide tour with a party of speakers representing a militant organization with the nonstop name, Protestants and Other...