Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city 85% destroyed in World War II, West Berlin (pop. 2,200,000) now produces 25% more industrial goods than it did in 1936 and exports ten times as much as it did in 1950. All the world buys its machinery and its Siemens heavy electrical gear (generators for Mexico, transformers for South America). West German women wear Berlin's smartly tailored fashions. Three fancy new hotels have just opened, including the Berlin Hilton, featuring New York-style high prices and bellhops who hop to orders received by pocket radio. The only reason that West...
...Revell employs an intelligence network in 70 countries where the company's models are sold. When Revell decided to produce the then-secret Russian Yak-25, a jet fighter (nickname: the Flashlight), it collected photos and details from overseas clients, got everything but the plane's landing gear. Relying on their study of other Red aircraft, Revell's engineers designed the Yak's landing gear as they figured the Russians would. Four months later, an official Soviet photo proved Revell's design correct...
...second gear...
With an added push from the nation's No. 4 pop song, American Motors' "little Nash Rambler" was in high gear last week and setting new records. November production hit a new high of 26,782 cars. For the first two months of its fiscal year (October and November), Rambler almost doubled its last year's production. It accounted for 9.2% of U.S. auto sales in October and is still pushing up speed. Rambler's freewheeling President George Romney scheduled 34,000 cars for December and 32,000 for January. He not only expects to sell...
...with Old Gear. The rebound is due largely to the general business recovery, plus anticipation of brisk retail sales at Christmas and early next year.* The comeback was also helped by the industry's campaign to eliminate overproduction. By scrapping some aged equipment and slashing back from a six-day to a five-day week, mills trimmed output by 10% during this year's first half, whittled inventories from 6.3 weeks of sales in June to 5.3 weeks in September. With inventories down and orders up, mills changed course this fall, boosted output almost 15% above the April...