Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Going My Way. In Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, England, coal miner Charles Carter plunged 775 feet down a mine elevator shaft, landed on a descending cage, got off at the bottom of the shaft with only a broken...
Demobilized. In Fort Belvoir, Va., Army Sergeant Chester Conrad got back to his parked car after an hour's absence, could not budge it, found that someone had stolen the entire drive shaft...
...Tucker Torpedo, a completely new car designed by a completely new company (the Tucker Corp.), looks like a backward bullet. It has a 150-h.p., six-cylinder aircraft-type engine in the rear, a fuel-injection system eliminating the carburetor, a new type of drive shaft and transmission. It is expected to weigh some 800 lbs. less than the average car, cost from...
When fire broke out in an elevator shaft of the downtown Leader Building, the canvassers stopped firemen rushing in to quench the flames, handed them pamphlets describing the coming destruction of the world by fire which is part of the Witnesses' dogma...
Both times the fire had been caused by a broken drive shaft in the cabin pressurizing system. Until the trouble could be remedied, commercial, airlines had been staying below 10,000 feet. But the Army had cautiously kept its C-69's on the ground altogether...