Word: davits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shipyard rumors last week gave Bethlehem the contract. Within 18 months Comrade Orlov may set himself the gigantic task of making order out of a series of shipments that will include everything from turrets, barbettes, gears, pistons, armor plates, electric hoists, turbines, boilers, stanchions, steampipes, searchlights, smokestacks to a davit for the Captain...
...four passengers in his Buhl Airsedan over Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week, then gave a lever a yank. Instantly steel arms gripped the front pair of passengers. A door alongside each flipped outward. The steel arms swung each passenger, chair & all, to the end of a davit clear of the ship. Automatic trips released the chairs and down they dropped, dragging after them parachutes which had been stowed into the bottom of the fuselage. Three seconds later the pilot yanked again and the other two passengers were swung out and dropped. All four floated to earth beneath their...