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...causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating for relief. Then came the power reverse gear which did the same job by air or steam-pressure released by nicking a small lever. Insisting on its installation, the Brotherhoods four years ago got the Interstate Commerce Commission to order it. Because each installation costs $500, the railroads fought the case to the U. S. Supreme Court where...
Meanwhile the 131 railroads which operate 97% of the nation's tracks compromised with the Brotherhoods by agreeing to put the power reverse gear on all new engines and on old ones brought in for Class 2 repairs. The Brotherhoods then asked the I.C.C. to drop the matter, but the I.C.C., anxious to assert itself, refused. Last week it ruled that the gear must be installed on all new engines and on old ones brought in for Class 3 repairs.* The minor U. S. roads for whom the change will be a major expense indicated that they would again...
Russia's planes are a curious blend of adaptation from abroad and original development at home. The planes that flew to the Pole were of the ANT6 four-motored bomber type. Lumbering, ungraceful things with highly tapered wings and bicycle landing gear which does not retract, they have little merit beyond big payloads. Instead of developing practical improvements, Russia's designers tend to go head-over-crupper for such fantastic devices as the P-5 biplanes whose fat lower wings open up to provide coffin-like niches in which 14 soldiers can snuggle. Most successful of Russia...
...case the Plympton Street oarsmen were hitting smoothly downstream when, passing under the Cottage Farm Bridge, the coxwain noticed a small gear rising into the boat under the number four man. Whereupon short and a handy float were headed for and, in a hot sprint, reached just before submersion...
...will overtake us." But Ortega will not admit that economic determinism (Marxism) supplies the right answer for Spain's condition. Marxism, which he calls "one of the great ideas of the 19th Century, ... is one of the great wheels in the mechanism of history, but it travels in gear with many other wheels. The whole machine is much more complex than this, so much more complex that we have not yet caught a glimpse of its entire plan." What the outline of that plan might be Ortega does not say, but he tries to show that, in Spain...