Word: gears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortages in furniture and gear are holding up a planned reshuffling of office space in the Hygiene Building, Dr. Bock said. The shift was required by the removal of the Employees' Clinic from the Hygiene Building to the adjoining one-story building two months...
...Paris' Orly Field one night last week Pilot Herbert Tansey got his takeoff signal from the control tower and headed T.W.A.'s big four-engine Constellation down the light-bordered runway. Airborne, he picked up the landing gear and set the Star of Cairo on her course northwest for Shannon, Eire, the first stop on the regular Paris-New York run. It was midnight...
Carnegie's judges had voted $1,000 first prize to Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths for a knotty grey-green what-is-it entitled Gear (TIME, Oct. 21). But when the gallerygoers' ballots were all in, they had voted, as they did in 1944, for conservative Cox. Cox's highly stylized brand of the bucolic-a plush wheat field under an exploding cloud-had the same kind of crowd appeal as the seascapes of the late Frederick J. Waugh (Waugh won the Carnegie popularity prize five years running...
...such production frills which add nothing to car performance (and may save car buyers dollars eventually), Browning hopes to pile up savings of $20 million, based on a "normal" million car year (slightly more than current production: 3,800 units per day). Only a shift into high-gear production could make up the rest...
...biggest trouble was that G.M.'s costs were racing along while production was in low gear. The strike had cut G.M.'s sales for the first quarter of 1946 to $74 million (v. 1940-41 sales of $500 million per quarter). And after the strike was settled, G.M.'s increased labor force (400,000 employes v. 274,000 in 1941) produced half as many cars as the company had put out before...