Word: pulley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight and pulley. In the recreation hall others hear a lecture on the future of Atlanta's housing industry...
Current History. In The Bronx, Manufacturer Edwin Klahn, who had an order for 200,000 paper containers but not quite enough machinery, turned a rolling pin into a pulley, an egg beater into a gear, went into production...
...James Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, La Prensa is unlike any other newspaper anywhere. In its fine old building the rooms are lofty and spiced with the odor of wax polish, long accumulated. Liveried flunkies pass memoranda and letters from floor to floor on an old pulley and string contraption. But high-speed hydraulic tubes whip copy one mile from the editorial room to one of the world's most modern printing plants-more than adequate to turn out La Prensa's 280,000 daily, 430,000 Sunday copies...
...Post Office last fortnight barred the promoter of this fraud from using the U.S. mail. A rectangular box about four feet long, worked on the principle of a medieval rack, the Pandiculator has T-shaped iron posts at each end, one fixed, the other movable on a cable pulley system. To pandiculate, all a gull had to do was lie down on the box, strap his head to the fixed post, his feet to the adjustable one; when he turned a wheel on the side, he could stretch his legs and hear the joints crack. The promotion copy claimed that...
...midshipmen training in Manhattan, enthusiast James Joseph Tunney, the Navy's new physical director, demonstrated his new setting-up exercises, swore that after 60 days a man would rather go without breakfast than them. To officers, Director Tunney demonstrated his special new rope-&-pulley exerciser, designed for the liquidation of naval corporations...