Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected to go into production by September. From its plant at Indianapolis, Allison was in smooth production (25 a day). General Motors had just adopted a new process for making Allison crankshafts 20-30% stronger than before. Still under test was Allison's new engine that may still match Britain's superpowered, engines: a 24-cylinder power plant (built in a W, not an H like the Napier), designed to equal the Sabre's power...
...pilot who dropped one said: "After it burst I could see a great circle of red, and on the rim of it, quite a distance from the center, I saw buildings going up into the air. Although I have been on 31 raids, I have never seen anything to match the effect of this bomb." Another described what he saw when a new bomb dropped as "a huge heaving mass like a volcano in eruption, which rose and settled down into a great red glow fully half a mile in diameter...
...family of Henry Worthington Button. In its antediluvian quarters across from the Old South Meeting House, the editorial offices of the Transcript reminded visitors of the sedate reading rooms of the Athenaeum. Reporters, scrupulously chosen with regard to social as well as journalistic attainment, lent a decorum to match the Transcript's antique presses (which had been named after members of the owning family). Until 1936 the single elevator was still operated by steam. (Said a visiting Englishman as the elevator inched upward: "Our trees grow faster than this...
...Cajas, or occupational guilds, through which medical care is administered. There are 20 to 30 such guilds in the country. Largest is the laborers' Caja, with a membership of 1,200,000. Each worker contributes from 3 to 10% of his wages to his Caja every month. Employers match or exceed this payment, and in some cases the Government adds a small percentage. For this fee a worker gets not only medical care but insurance against several or all of the following (according to the rules of his Caja): 1) sickness and invalidism; 2) old age; 3) accidents...
...Chinese war had taken an eighth of an inch off every Japanese match...