Word: derrick
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...Saint-Brieux, France, one Victor Rousoult was walking along the docks where he worked, when a dangling hook caught in the ring on his finger. The derrick from which the hook dangled hoisted ring, finger and Rousoult 100 feet into the air. Comrades saw, shouted. The derrick lowered Rousoult to the ground. When he was within a few feet of landing, his finger tore...
Docket number 127 is the Beale Club (Derrick, Rogers) versus the Westengard Club (Schmidt, McGinnis). The meeting will be in Austin Hall East with D. E. Terrill 3L as chief justice...
...true that the salvaging party had no derricks with a lifting capacity equal to the weight of the submarine but the largest ones obtainable were in use. The derrick that was in use could have raised a vessel of 200 tons, but the S-4 weighed 800 tons, and if the water had filled the compartments it would have weighed an additional 500 tons...
...statistics concerning the construction work reveal that 10,000 barrels of cement and 25,000 bricks will be necessary to complete the bridge. These materials are hoisted out on the river by a derrick 83 feet high. The depth of the river where the spans were built varies from 12 to 18 feet. For the last month and a half 175 men have been employed to hasten the work of construction...
...showing at Coney Island, N. Y., as "Tom Ton, 960 Ibs." He had begun to get fatter, felt miserable, wanted to see his wife and three children. So he took a baggage car across the country. Home, a baggage truck transported him from train to hospital, where the institutional derrick hoisted him to bed. He had gained 100 pounds in the fortnight of illness. Doctors say his mortal half-ton died of myocarditis, dropsy and suffocation of the heart...