Word: sprocket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leggy, blond comic-strip character named Jane. Each day in the London Daily Mirror, Artist W. Norman Pett found some way of making Jane lose all, or almost all her clothes (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). He was pretty inventive about it: Jane would catch her skirt in a bicycle sprocket, in revolving machinery, in a plane fall (see cut) or a pratfall...
...from 3½ hours to 15 minutes; another parts maker improvised machine-gun equipment that beats regular arsenal machinery by 20-30 times; an automatic cannon that cost $1,200 to make 18 months ago now costs around $600; a new flame-cutting process turned out 12 tank-engine sprockets in 6 minutes v. 8 hours formerly required for a single sprocket...