Word: brakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pushing up for the twelve-story Bell Telephone Building. Both are rectangular slabs at Gateway Center, near the point of the downtown Triangle. They will add to the three all-steel office build ings thrown up since 1950 at Gateway, now the headquarters of Westinghouse Electric Corp., Westinghouse Air Brake...
...Administration, which boasted repeatedly during the presidential campaign that it had brought economic stability, the new rise was a jolt. The Federal Reserve Board-with its latter-day independence guaranteed by the White House -has tried to put a brake on inflation by "tight money" policies; i.e., by making credit increasingly expensive, it hoped to restrain excessive business investment. But the new cost-of-living rise seemed to defy such measures. Reason: at the root of the rise are the succeeding wage increases won by union members in the past year-increases which have not been compensated for by higher...
...winch and a few gears at the top of the shaft. To go up, one simply kept pulling down the main rope. The elevator descended of its own accord with any sort of a weight. And to stop at any of the floors, the rider pulled on the "brake rope," which stopped the winch from unwinding...
Starting from the top of the Museum, Hollister and Fisher began their descent. They never touched the brake rope. "By the time we passed the first floor, we had gained pretty good momentum," Hollister recalls...
...fact that Republicans were getting along with each other did not mean that they intended to brake on the curves. Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie, the convention keynoter (see below), spurned Democratic Keynoter Frank Clement's highballing forensics. But Langlie set a hard-hitting style for the Republican campaign when he charged the Democrats with "a naked admission that they are now addicted to the principle that loyalty to a political party comes ahead of loyalty to our beloved country...