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Last week Timken-Detroit was making 300 pinions an hour on one machine. The gear teeth need no machining, come out of the dies cleanly accurate. The forging process produces tougher gears, will save about a million pounds of steel...
Along the 761-mile airway between Stratford, Conn., and Dayton, Ohio, farmers in the fields last summer saw a strange craft skittering overhead. It had no wings. Its spraddle-legged landing gear hung gauntly from its snub-nosed body. Above the fuselage whirled a shimmering set of paddles, like a busy egg beater. On an open frame at the tail whirled another but smaller airscrew, in a vertical plane: even the tail surfaces of the what-is-it were busy...
Current History. In The Bronx, Manufacturer Edwin Klahn, who had an order for 200,000 paper containers but not quite enough machinery, turned a rolling pin into a pulley, an egg beater into a gear, went into production...
...Captain Smith and his Commandos came telegrams giving each of them two days to return from furlough. When they met at the railhead "they were still congruous with civilian notions of tenderness . . . One could easily envisage the disentanglement of a sergeant's gear from feminine articles, helmet recovered from a web of stockings, rifle extracted from a flimsy slip." A few days of special training in friendly, sheltered coves, and then "the filing into craft by twilight, each man in his proper place and fighting order...
Smoother and sleeker than its prototype, the new Corsair is made distinctive by its inverted gull wing, which makes possible a short, light, retractable landing gear and still leaves room for the big three-bladed propeller to clear the ground on take-off runs...