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...company making high-traction gears for all-wheel-drive trucks, had three machines, each turning out twelve pinions an hour - enough for one six-wheeler. As military trucking increased, Timken-Detroit engineers could foresee the bottle neck. They decided to try the impossible - to forge gears to the unheard-of tolerance (for forging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gears Without Chips | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...phenomenal feature of our present unheard-of production, Dean Williams explained to the Student Fireside Council in an informal address last night at the Students' Club is that we have actually doubled the figures quoted for industrial output of a few years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILLIAMS HAILS WAR INDUSTRY | 2/9/1943 | See Source »

...remainder of the previously unheard compositions, except for "B B and B," consisted of "Going Up" from his new picture, "Cabin in the Sky," and a group of recorded, but as yet unreleased numbers. The first seemed rather senseless and blatant, but as is typical with Ellington, this impression will probably wear off on further hearings. The others were impressive, especially an unnamed blues...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 2/3/1943 | See Source »

...Lieut. Thomas Sargent La Farge, 38, of the Coast Guard Reserve, mural painter, grandson of the late Painter John La Farge, cousin of Writer Oliver La Farge; somewhere in the Atlantic. He was skipper of the Coast Guard cutter Natsek, presumed by the Navy to be lost after being unheard of for "several weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 1, 1943 | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...smiles will greet the once-inspired shouts of "trow de big bum out; de empire oughtta take gas." National league umpires will have to carry a pocket-sized edition of Funk and Wagnalls into every argument at home plate. The Dodgers' educational standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia of the Georgia-Florida League. Unless the Dodgers forego this unholy alliance, their rakish diamond tactics may soon be Whiffenpoofed to a grey-flannel sophistication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Bums on Campus | 1/5/1943 | See Source »

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