Word: levers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revenues 9% (to $3,125,855,000) over the same period of 1939. It was barely suggested by the companion fact that when rail net rises above the break-even (interest-covering) point, leverage raises it much faster than the gross. The 9% increase in gross served as a lever on which 137 of the roads hoisted their combined...
Democrats of Cedar Falls, Iowa were sorely perplexed. Through a mixup, their printed instructions on how to use the newly-installed voting machines read simply: "Pull the Republican lever." Republicans in one Waterloo, Iowa precinct were equally baffled. Election judges the night before had inadvertently left a sign hanging on the Republican county ticket lever: "Do not touch...
Down over his balding head Igor Sikorsky pulled his too-small hat. With his right hand on the control stick, his feet on the rudder pedals, he grasped with his left hand the lever that controls the lift of the motor by varying the pitch of the blades. Mechanics (who had held the helicopter with ropes while Designer Sikorsky learned to fly it) backed away. He pulled back the pitch control lever. Into the air jumped Sikorsky's bug. Fifteen to 20 feet off the ground it came to a stop, hung there. Sikorsky moved the control stick forward...
...onetime Tugger Gordon, "compared favorably with a well-trained crew in technique, precision and rhythm. . . . There were five men to a team. . . . The rope was about seventy-five feet long. . . . Exactly in the middle of the platform there was a red line one inch wide over which was the lever which held the rope preparatory to the 'drop' or start...
...teams take their position [see top cut], the rope, which is taut, is held down by the lever on which the referee stands. At the word 'heave,' he jumps off the lever and so releases the rope. The men drop into position [see lower cut]. Having fallen on the right side, each man instantly throws his left foot over the rope to the cleat and in that position he continues to pull for five minutes...