Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials and on a truly mass-production basis is one prefabricated in the ever-fertile imagination of R. Buckminster ("Dymaxion") Fuller (TIME, Oct. 11, 1943). With an eye to production by planemakers, the dreamhouse consists of an aluminum and plastic circular shell supported by a central stainless-steel shaft, instead of a conventional foundation. Newly formed Fuller Houses, Inc. (former name: Dymaxion Dwelling Machines, Inc.) hopes to license upwards of 70 manufacturers to produce 185,000 units a year. But the only licensee to date is Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp. It has produced only two test models...
...Work, No Pay. In Denver, a prowler climbed a pole, jumped to a third-floor window, broke through a screen into an elevator shaft, leaped to a cable, swung over and kicked open a door to a corridor, climbed through, tried to cut a hole in the floor, finally tired of it all and left lootless...
...gasoline ran into elevator shafts and exploded. Parts of the plane sheared elevator cables, and one elevator fell. One of the plane's engines crashed into an elevator shaft, screeched 79 floors, fell on the cab, carried it down to wreckage in the basement. The other engine and other heavy parts ripped through seven inner walls, then tore a hole in the south side of the building-90 feet from the point of crash. The wreckage fell in a sculptor's 12th-floor penthouse studio in a building across the street, caused another fire...
...seven U.S. soldier-executioners it was a grim assignment. First they went to a makeshift gallows, built in an elevator shaft, and practiced with a sandbag dummy. Then, shortly after midnight one night, they carried out the verdict...
...eyes flicked nervously from one face to another. But he held his chin high. Said he: "I can't see why this is being done to me." When they placed the black hood over his head, he pivoted on his heel, marched smartly to the edge of the shaft, maintained his military bearing...