Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...auto tariff against outsiders is still a stiff 22% O. the U.S.'s 6½%), and exorbitant excise and horsepower taxes increase the European price of Ford's Comet to about $5,000. The U.S. also agreed to tariff easing on certain machinery, electrical gear, steel products, glassware and diamonds. Europe countered with lighter duties on radio and TV transmitters, planes and aircraft parts...
...shipping by sea and will tap growing markets in cities that present pipelines skirt. It will also have more immediate effects on the U.S. economy. The builders will order 500,000 tons of steel (for about $100 million) and $100 million worth of pumps, generators and other finished gear...
Meanwhile, the McCormack campaign moved into high gear at the University yesterday as recruiting began for a Students For McCormack organization...
...well the hulls of submarines-including the subs that carry the Polaris missile-will stand up to nuclear attack. Nuclear weapons will be detonated at high altitudes to check the effect on ground communications and radar. In previous tests, ionization caused by nuclear explosions wreaked havoc with electronics gear, raised the possibility that an enemy might try to knock out the electronic network of U.S. defenses by exploding warheads at high altitudes...
...ruined what was left of the British facilities on the island. The harbor was silted with sand. The water supply system was nothing more than a deep ditch cut into the coral to catch rain water. The airstrip was pocked with holes that would snap off a landing gear. The buildings were ready to fall down...