Word: levering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biplane and vanished. Rather than see the machine rot on its wheels, Gates started the engine one day, mounted the rickety seat, started taxiing about the field just for the fun of "grass-cutting.'' To his astonishment the plane rose some 20 ft. Hastily Gates shoved a lever, landed with a bang. On the strength of that maiden flight, Gates booked himself for a number of engagements as an aviator. Perhaps fortunately, a taxicab accident put him on crutches and he was forced to seek a substitute. He found Didier Masson. Paulhan's mechanic. Thus Gates became...
...Britons liked blatant slogans (which Britons do not) they might have opened London's annual motor show last week with: "The Gear Shift Lever Must Go!" Ten of the 26 British exhibitors showed cars not equipped with gear shift levers but having at the centre of the steering wheel a minute gadget called a "pre-selector...
Paradoxically the new Wilson Pre-Selective Gearbox which triumphed at the London Show last week is only a great and suave improvement on Henry Ford's ancient "planetary transmission" of immortal Model T. Last week the 8-h. p. British Ford was not pre-selective, had a gear lever of conventional U. S. type. From France came Andre Citroen's latest, a car with floating power"-by permission of Walter P. Chrysler who has leased the French rights of his moteur flottant to "The Ford of France...
...practical experience of American methods thus acquired will be a lever in raising the living standards of this country. No one looking at Dnieprostroy can doubt the Soviet Union's success in becoming a great industrial nation...
...plane through the T into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever, disengaged his plane-hook from the trapeze bar. At the same instant he gunned his motor, nosed his plane down in a power dive to clear the airship before an upward gust could possibly cause a foul. Then he headed for Lakehurst where another plane waited to fly Admiral Moffett...