Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efficiency; it orders 40% of all its auto frames from A. O. Smith. The company has made a profession of revolutionizing mass-production techniques. It has become the world's largest maker of steel pipe, also turns out 24 other products ranging from glass-lined vats to landing gear for B-47 jet bombers. In the last ten years, A. 0. Smith's sales have mushroomed from $46.7 million in 1941 to $176.6 million last year, its net has nearly tripled...
Next day, after two more planes had dropped survival gear, Hodgkin got worried about all the money being wasted on him. "I just pulled the tie ropes, gave the ship a shove downhill and away I went, just like an eagle." The B-17 flew over again. "The bird's flown the coop," its radio cackled. Hodgkin, still unable to start his engine, had calmly dead-sticked in to a landing on a frozen lake, 9,071 feet below...
Trouble began when pilots began to harness Leonard into the usual protective gadgetry: buoyancy gear, oxygen mask, parachute, etc. With such equipment bulging from his 205 lbs., he needed the help of five men to fold him into the tiny radarman's cabin behind the pilot. When they lowered the bullet-proof canopy, it banged against his helmet, pushed his face within six inches of the radar panel...
McGuire's jet planes are always ready; their engines need no warming up. The crews are waiting, too, close to the waiting planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...
...usual on a Marine jump-off, the leathernecks were not losing any time. Corporal Ardrick Hammon of Alton, Ill., radioman for an artillery observer, slogged his way north, so loaded with fighting and communications gear that he could stoop to tie the flapping lace of one combat boot. He felt a tap on his shoulder, looked into a lean face under a pile cap with three stars and a paratrooper's silver badge...