Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to work. The patrolman moved into a company dormitory, and for the next six days his house got the kind of spring cleaning that many a homeowner wishes he could afford. Inside & out, everything (including the unhappy patrolman) was swabbed down with soap & water. Later, all the cleaning gear was carefully collected, carted off and tossed on to a restricted disposal dump...
...last January had the first model in a test block. As its blast shook the concrete floor of the test cell, Jack Homer said: "Well, I think we have overshot the field." Solemnly, an old Pratt & Whitney hand interposed: "We may have trouble with the landing gear." Asked the puzzled Horner: "What landing gear?" "I mean," said the Old Hand, "when we let the building back down...
Since the missile makes only one flight, it needs no fuel for a return trip. It has no landing gear or defensive armament. All these savings cut its cost while improving its performance. Probably the biggest saving will come from reduction of running life. A missile must be dependable, but it does not have to be built (like an airplane engine) so well that it will last for thousands of hours. In most cases a few minutes or hours is all the life it needs. When designers and manufacturers adjust their thinking to take advantage of this fact, great savings...
...kiss from a Wellesley girl and an ultra-light, three-gear racing bike await the winner...
...government's dish. As it concentrated on quantity, the quality dropped, since the government could not gear its prices to the numerous varieties of teas that are needed to make good blends. British tea lovers were bitter, and brokers loudly grumbled that they could do a better job, even under rationing and retail price controls. When an all-party committee of Parliament also agreed, the Ministry of Food gave in. "Government purchasing," admitted the Ministry, "does not, on the whole, give consumers the widest possible choice of teas [or] assure adequate supplies...