Word: gears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolf. Eight-year-old Romano Mussolini, wearing the militant gear of a "Fascist Son of the Roman Wolf," invaded his father's office before the Dictator left for Bolzano. Coming to attention with his wooden musket, Moppet Mussolini cried: "Papa, I want to go and fight with Bruno and Vittorio...
...wife's coffin. Meanwhile, since Austria has hung on the brink of revolution ever since the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6), hoary President Wilhelm Miklas in consternation summoned the Cabinet, while Vienna buzzed with rumors that Nazi agents had tampered with the steering gear of the Schuschnigg automobile...
...wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, the new bomber is of three-ply all-metal construction. It is powered with four 800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps-first Army or Navy craft to have more than three motors. The motors are two to a side, streamlined into the high- camber cantilever wing. While the Boeing's fuselage is designed to carry bomb-racks, it would need but slight modification to become a commercial airliner...
...automobiles. This time he used a new Auburn chassis for his test. His engine has six cylinders, 100 h. p., weighs only 80 lb. more than the 8-cylinder Lycoming gasoline engine it replaced. It can turn 3,000 r. p. m., make 90 m. p. h. with a gear ratio slightly above normal. It weighs only 8 lb. per h. p., would cost some 10% more than a gasoline engine to put into mass production. It has no spark plugs, no ignition system, no carburetor, is free from carbon. There is no fire or explosion hazard. The exhaust...
...motor trouble on the eastbound bus. "somewhere in Kansas." Had a passenger written your story he probably would have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built; the natives of much of the route regard the bus as a creation of Mars, judging by the way they stare at the apparition as it roars along...