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  2. USG Corporation - Wikipedia

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    USG Corporation, also known as United States Gypsum Corporation, is an American company which manufactures construction materials, most notably drywall and joint compound. The company is the largest distributor of wallboard in the United States and the largest manufacturer of gypsum products in North America.

  3. Line shaft - Wikipedia

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    A line shaft is a power-driven rotating shaft for power transmission that was used extensively from the Industrial Revolution until the early 20th century. Prior to the widespread use of electric motors small enough to be connected directly to each piece of machinery, line shafting was used to distribute power from a large central power source ...

  4. List of ocean liners - Wikipedia

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    Sank from Propeller Shaft failure, August 17, 1930 RMS Port Kingston in 1904 The Tahiti sinking, 17 August 1930 SS The Emerald: 1957 Santa Rosa (1958–1990) Diamond Island (1990–1992) Regent Rainbow (1992–1996) The Emerald (1996–2012) Scrapped at Alang, India in 2012 The Emerald in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1999 SS Uganda (1952 ...

  5. USG - Wikipedia

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    USG may refer to: Business. Unix Systems Group, a former division of Novell; USG Corporation (formerly United States Gypsum Corporation), a construction materials ...

  6. Venus for Men - Wikipedia

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    The amount of air in the system is adjustable and determines the stroke length. Most users can adjust it to move the full length of the shaft. [9] A significant amount of personal lubricant is needed to be added within the liner for the machine to operate correctly. The system is controlled during operation by two small control boxes.

  7. Marine propulsion - Wikipedia

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    The shaft power from each can either go directly to the propeller, pump jet or other mechanism, or it goes through some form of transmission; mechanical, electrical or hydraulic. In the 1800s, steam was one of the main power sources for marine propulsion.

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Officials at the state Department of Juvenile Justice did not respond to questions about YSI. A department spokeswoman, Meghan Speakes Collins, pointed to overall improvements the state has made in its contract monitoring process, such as conducting more interviews with randomly selected youth to get a better understanding of conditions and analyzing problematic trends such as high staff turnover.

  9. Shaft sinking - Wikipedia

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    Shaft mining or shaft sinking is the action of excavating a mine shaft from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom. [1] Shallow shafts , typically sunk for civil engineering projects, differ greatly in execution method from deep shafts, typically sunk for mining projects.