Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief disadvantage of contrarotating propellers is maintenance: warplanes, landing on small unlighted fields by night, snub and flatten their noses all too often, and the propellers' intricate gearing mechanisms are hard to repair. But as motors become ever more powerful, torque-and the need to overcome it-becomes an increasing problem...
...sales: $14,557,000), needs and wants subcontractors. So he sent out over 40,000 questionnaires to dealers asking for details on their tools, floor space and manpower. When he gets his answers Frazer will have something no one else has: data on the manufacturing capacities of auto-repair equipment...
...efficiency-engineering service, with each plant a fresh problem. Its engineers are most successful in diversified plants with a multiplicity of operations. A shipyard is down the Bedaux alley, a well-planned auto assembly line is not. At U.S. Steel's Gary plant, Bedaux engineers increased repair department personnel 10%, claim to have upped efficiency 80%. In a steel foundry making tank parts, production jumped from 300 to 1,000 tons monthly while man-hours per ton were cut 50%. Bedaux engineers are working in many a U.S. armament factory, have been called in to stop a slump caused...
During the interim between the two illustrated talks, Maynard Miller '43, president of the Club, and Andrew Kauffman '43, vice-president, revealed plans for a Club bulletin and for some needed repair work on Spur Cabin, the Club's outpost in the White Mountains...
...followed the Japanese attack on this country. As every student knows, modern war is based to a large extent on complex electrical instruments used for the detection of enemy aircraft and warships, for the control of planes and ships, and for communications. Men are needed for the operation, repair, and development of these instruments in numbers far greater than the colleges can possibly supply. This means, first of all, men with fairly advanced training in the field of vacuum tube physics and vacuum tube engineering popularly known as 'electronics.' The estimate of 10,000 men who know their way around...