Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shares, making theirs the biggest single holding. They planned a proxy fight to unseat Avery and reverse his present tight fisted, cash-hoarding, nonexpansionist policies. Said Wolfson: "Montgomery Ward, as it stands today, is a glaring and notorious example of private enterprise in reverse gear...
Shifting into high gear last week, the Senate also...
Sitting snug above the sea, each island will be a self-contained $1,000,000 platform for a radar tower and a mass of sensitive electronic gear. Unlike similar outposts built by the British in World War II, the unarmed Air Force stations will seek only to locate, rather than destroy, enemy aircraft; they will also guide friendly fighters to the target, furnish weather information to ships and shore. For the 30-odd technicians assigned to each island, living will be cramped and bleak indeed; the Air Force plans to rotate its seagoing units every 30 days...
...mile post (1,500 meters) at a better-than-world's-record clip (3:41.9). There Bannister turned on his fabulous reserve power and made his move. "I looked back on the inside," said Landy. "Just then he went by me on the outside. I shifted into high gear but couldn't catch...
...Senate met after a Sunday recess, the compromise machinery went into gear. Knowland offered a closure motion, and it was beaten, as he knew it would be. When the filibusterers began offering their amendments, Knowland asked for unanimous consent to limit debate. The filibustering bloc warned him that they would not stand for a knife at their throats, and Knowland backed down. An amendment to kill all domestic portions of the bill was beaten. Then an amendment to modify the patent features of the bill and extend the licensing period on atomic inventions from five to ten years was passed...