Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters, some 200, gathered at the Fire Station and decided to build the harbor themselves, and to date they have spent over $40,000 on it. The Coast Guard used the harbor as a wartime base for patrol craft, and there is an active Coast Guard auxiliary unit there today...
...real trouble with British exports to dollar areas does not lie in exchange rates, but in Britain's high production costs. Get away from currency entirely and express these in man-hours per unit produced. The British product costs more than the U.S. product because British production is less efficient. No matter how she fiddles with the currencies, Britain cannot expand her U.S. market on a long-range basis until real costs are cut by more efficient machines, management and labor. The present crisis is a powerful pressure on British management and labor to become more efficient. Devaluation...
...Troubaders, Braves Field's three piece band which played for 1929 yesterday, found themselves joined by a familiar musician from the class-Williams English professor Koy Lamson, who back in the late Twenties founded the Harvardians, a band which for years was the Gold Coast's best known dance unit . . . Lamson has since become as accomplished performer on the recorder as well his native clarinet...
Along with the paintings were nine examples of Leonardo's unsurpassed draftsmanship and 66 models of his scientific inventions, ranging from ten-barreled machine guns and rocket-shaped projectiles to automatic roasting spits and a slave-powered air-conditioning unit for the Duchess' bedroom. They showed that in the vast chiaroscuro of Leonardo's mind, scores of the horrors and wonders of 20th Century science had hatched and died...
Although still in the development stage and costly to operate, the new locomotive puts out twice as much horsepower as a diesel of comparable size. G.E. and Alco hope to develop a gas turbine-electric unit that can run economically on coal, and will need overhauling only after 15,000 hours of operation (three times as long as present-day diesels). G.E. and Alco think that someday the gas turbine-electric engine may replace the diesel...