Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried three times to make the door, but every time the ship took an evasive action and threw me some place else. I finally got to the waist window and was going to jump when I noticed my chute had ripped open. I was bruised all over and my left shoulder felt as if it were gone...
...student paratrooper stepped into space, 700 ft. over Britain. The plane zipped away at 80 m.p.h. The paratrooper counted, pulled the ripcord-continued to fall like a stone. His chute did not open properly. The 154 Ib. paratrooper plummeted the 700 ft. in 10 seconds, hit the earth at 50 m.p.h...
...Street mobs were literally a danger to life & limb: one shopper clocked the time it took her to navigate a twelve-foot vestibule leading into Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Result: 25 minutes flat. According to one description of Marshall Field & Co.'s escalators: "They look like the overhead chute at the stockyards during a heavy run of cattle." And the stampede was mostly for high-priced goods: furs, jewelry, $300-and-up sets of china, antiques, fine furniture, draperies and rugs...
...Packing parachutes for the whole A.A.F. is one of its most loving cares. Some special customers even get a letter from home immediately after they make an emergency landing: in the jungle kits stitched into the parachutes they find a cozy note from the woman worker who packed the chute...
Safety. In Norristown, Pa., Fire Chief Miles Riley decided to keep his old-fashioned safety nets when a fireman, demonstrating the superiority of a new and improved chute, broke his elbow. In Jacksonville, the Citizens Safety Committee adjourned its meeting when a committee member rose from his chair and was knocked flat by an opening door...