Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy, such as the case where a salesman, flown direct to a customer in a company plane, signed up a $1,000,000 order before his competition could get there on commercial lines. Planes also have become invaluable for rush deliveries. When Rynel Corp., a small Illinois metal-gear manufacturer, announced that rush orders would be delivered within 24 hours by company plane, its orders shot up from $30,000 to $300,000 in a single month...
...forced. As is so often true in drawing-room comedy, the secondary characters are the most fun. Mr. Cotten's Tory father (delightfully played by John Cromwell) seems a wittier cousin of the late George Apley, while Cathleen Nesbitt, as a great lady who purrs, and Luella Gear, as a career woman who drips acid, also add to the brightness...
...Engineer's Nightmare. All this was harder to do than to plan. He had to build a hub that would contain all the gear necessary for these subtle and complicated changes of altitude and still let the blades ride free (to kill gyroscopic effect and preserve a balance of lift), supported horizontally only by centrifugal force. The hub was an engineer's nightmare. There was only one way to ferret out its many early imperfections. Sikorsky had the VS-300 tied down with stout ropes to keep it from rising more than a few feet. Then he climbed into...
...owned by Robert Albert '55 of Beverly Farms and Kirkland House, was parked across from the Indoor Athletic Building on Holyoke St. during the Colgate game on October 10. It was locked and in reverse gear...
...biggest growth has come during the 20 years since Yorkshire-born David Brown, grandson of the founder, succeeded his father in the family business. Fresh from an American tour and full of Yankee ideas of expansion, Brown wanted to expand the company, then Britain's biggest gear maker, into other products...