Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Safest. Today the elevator is not only the busiest but the safest form of transportation. Last year, in Manhattan alone, 31,500 elevators carried between four and five billion passengers, injured only 118, killed 15. Half of the accidents were caused by the careless use of keys to elevator shaft doors (people step into cars that aren't there...
...centuries, native treasure hunters have searched for that cave, reasoning that the walled-up soldiers must have carried valuable loot. One of the searchers found an empty cave in Antelias valley. Near by he noticed a similar rock formation, its mouth choked with debris. He dug a narrow shaft, and found not a walled-up army lying among its treasures, but at least a few chips of man-worked flint. The chips were spotted by a kibitzing U.S. archeologist, and a Jesuit task force attacked the cave to find what manner of ancient man had lived...
Actor Maurice Evans made the mistake of asking Author Bernard Shaw to join him in a transatlantic broadcast celebrating Man and Superman's record Broadway run. He was promptly winged with a Shavian shaft...
...trick was a more intensive method of mining the ore. Last week Kelley was busy spending $20,000,000 to turn the trick. At the head of Butte's "Dublin Gulch," workers hoisted a sign that read "Kelley's Shaft." They started to sink a rectangular shaft big enough (38 ft. by 9 ft.) to accommodate the machinery needed for the Kelley plan. It will be driven down to 3,400 ft., cutting straight through the old galleries where the best of the rich ore has been mined. To get out the low-grade ore, miners will work...
After the shaft begins operating, 30 months from now, Kelley expects to get out another 2,500,000,000 pounds of copper. Getting the ore, at one-fifth the cost of conventional methods, Kelley hopes to do it cheaply enough to keep going in Butte for at least 35 years, no matter what the ups & downs of the market...