Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal-black delegate of Haiti, gigantic, barrel-chested Constantin Mayard, broached his plan for world prosperity to whoever would listen. ''Everybody ought to drink more rum," advised Delegate Mayard, "and they ought to eat more bananas." Word that the King-Emperor was rising in the Conference lift caused 800 delegates, experts and correspondents to scramble to their feet. Stiff and silent to honor His Majesty, benign sovereign of one-quarter of all mankind, stood white chief delegates in cutaways, white-robed Indians, the gaily turbaned Hejaz delegate and the head of only one state, President Schulthess of Switzerland...
...screaming brakes last week in front of Athens' Evangelismos Hospital. Nimbly out of the bullet-riddled car stepped Eleutherios Venizelos, since 1910 eight times Premier of Greece, bitter foe of present Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris. Startled internes leaped forward, helped 68-year-old M. Venizelos, who was unscathed, to lift from the floor of the car the limp body of his rich wife. Blood oozed from her clothing. After a hasty examination doctors found that four bullets had grazed her lungs and stomach but that she would live. Dead lay a Venizelos bodyguard...
This statement is grossly inaccurate. The F4, a vessel of about 280 tons, was lifted by sweeping cables under her while she lay in 304 ft. of water, and then, taking a strain on the cables, dragging her along the bottom till she had been dragged into about a depth of 48 ft. only, without even in this stage lifting her off the bottom. At a depth of about 48 ft. of water, being then practically inside the harbor, the dragging process went to smash, and to complete the job, the salvage officer built six pontoons which were used only...
...were lifted at one lift from deep water to the surface; the pontoons used on the F-4 were wholly unsuitable for deep water and constituted the major trouble on the S-51 job; indeed the salvage officer on the F-4 himself said they were "unmanageable" even on his shallow water job and expressed surprise that we succeeded in doing anything with them in deep water...
...picked up Raoul Joseph Hoffman, an Austrian engineer who came through South Bend peddling slide rules. Together they built the ARUP which is simply a parabolic wing of 19-ft. span with fuselage & engine inserted in the middle. Dr. Snyder claims for his ARUP higher speed, slower landing, greater lift, greater safety than those of a conventional airplane of equivalent power. He imagines a big, high-powered ARUP carrying unprecedented loads at undreamed-of speeds, even into the stratosphere...