Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government's drawing boards are plans, specifications and blueprints for a massive public-works program that can be rapidly thrown into gear. Within a year, the Federal Government could increase its public-works program at least...
...Mouthed Whirlybird. A two-rotor military helicopter big enough to carry three jeeps or 26 fully equipped infantrymen was demonstrated for Marine Corps brass by Sikorsky Aircraft Co. A pair of clamshell doors swing wide to admit passengers or cargo through a whale-sized mouth. New features: retractable landing gear to cut air resistance, a five-bladed front rotor (the rear rotor has four blades). Speed: better than 150 m.p.h. Name: XHR2s...
...Wild One (Stanley Kramer; Columbia) is a percussion piece played on the moviegoer's nerves, a kind of audiovisual fugue in which the themes of boogie and terror heap up in alternations of juke-yowl and gear-gnash to a climax of violence-and then fall patly silent, leaving the audience to console its disordered pulse and unsweat itself from the seat...
Rickover worked day & night revamping outmoded equipment to win the battles to come. His section grew prodigiously as the Navy's ships grew fuller of electrical and electronic gear. Sharp-tongued Hyman Rickover spurred his men to exhaustion, ripped through red tape, drove contractors into rages. He went on making enemies, but by the end of the war he had won the rank of captain. He had also won a reputation as a man "who gets things done...
...craft is powered by small (12-lb.) ramjet engines mounted at the rotor blade tips. Mostly cabin, the new 'copter seats two to three persons, can carry more than 100% of its empty weight (500 lbs.), uses a pair of ski-shaped pipes for landing gear...