Word: ejector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ejector. A hay-bale ejector that can be attached to standard balers was put on sale by Deere & Co. Operated by one man, the ejector takes each bale as it conies out of the press, heaves it eight feet into the air and into a wagon coupled behind the baler. Price...
...tried to climb skyward. At that moment the airport greeters had their first horror-stricken sight of the Vulcan, a monstrous shadow in the mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon ship!" He and Sir Harry, in their ejector seats, shot upward from the aircraft, and their parachutes blossomed in the mist. But for the other four members of the crew, whose only exit was through the plane's underside, there was no chance. The Vulcan's nose cut earthward again, and the aircraft skidded along the concrete...
...grass alongside the runway where his ejector-parachute had dropped him, Pilot Howard lay, scratched and dazed but otherwise unhurt. Near by, on the concrete itself, was Sir Harry Broadhurst. His feet were broken. In a moment both airmen were in the arms of their wives who had come to cheer their return. Farther down the runway, the other greeters watched in silence as airport firemen fought the flames, and experts prepared to investigate whether mechanical or human failure had struck down the Vulcan...
...Farnborough, Britain held its annual air show, inviting some 6,000 foreign visitors, military and civilian, to admire and buy the flying products of British airplane makers. The visitors gyrated in machines that simulate the violent motions of a jet fighter in flight; they were shot in an ejector seat up a vertical runway; they drank champagne in booths maintained by sales-conscious manufacturers...
...your cover picture of Betty Hutton [TIME, April 24]: to the double-action Colt revolvers with swing-out cylinders have been added, by your otherwise careful artist, ejector slides from the single-action type of revolver. No such hand-gun as shown was ever made...