Word: hoist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lift 35 tons (35 times the capacity of smaller truck lifts), has 6-ft.-high tires, and two sets of controls, between which the operator in his air-conditioned cab can swing to keep his view unblocked. It can lift a trailer carrying half a dozen autos, hoist truck trailers on and off flat cars in rail road piggybacking. Ford has ordered five for its steel division. Price: $90,000 each...
...near future, Berger's men will start practice retrieves of the man-carrying capsules of Project Mercury. The first capsules to hit the sea after their rocket rides will hold only dummies, but the boats will hurry toward them, probably guided by aircraft and helicopters, and try to hoist them on board in a way that would not endanger a man who might be inside. As they approach this task, Berger's men do not speak of themselves as undertakers...
...Equipped with Aqua-Lungs, divers are gradually taking over much of the work of the traditional helmeted diver. They hunt for jade off California, sink oil derricks off Louisiana, scrounge for sponge and pearl in the Mediterranean, raise cannon, coins and crucifixes from Spanish galleons sunk off Florida, and hoist history from ancient submerged towns such as Epidauros, which disappeared in a tidal wave off Yugoslavia in A.D. 365. Last week a Methodist minister and sometime oceanographer from Kansas City donned an Aqua-Lung and plunged into the Dead Sea-avowedly in search of the lost cities of Sodom...
...flamboyance. At night, searchlights turn the circular Hotel Humboldt to a tower of golden glow at the end of its cable car, 4,000 feet above the city on Mount Avila. Inside the red-plush walls of La Belle Epoque restaurant, the oil lawyers and the air-conditioner distributors hoist $2.40 martinis and down $20 dinners. Visiting businessmen snap on black ties and pad down the corridors of the jammed Hotel Tamanaco, bound for nightclubs where sleek performers dance the traditional, twirling, fast-stepping joropo to the sound of harps twanging like guitars...
When the band had finished and the speeches were over, square-jawed Commander James Osborn, 41, stepped forward on the deck, read the commissioning orders and said: "I am ready to hoist the colors." Up went the Stars and Stripes and the commissioning pennant on the first U.S. submarine of a new class to join the fleet-the history-making Polaris sub George Washington.* Skipper Osborn next turned smartly to his executive officer, snapped a gloved salute. "Mr. Hannifin," he ordered, "set the watch...