Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wings of the Curtiss-Bleecker are mounted at right angles to each other, to rotate about a vertical axis. Each wing is equipped with a propeller, shaft-driven by a central Wasp motor mounted horizontally in the axis. Also to each wing is rigged a controllable "flipper," comparable to an aileron. Beneath the entire assembly is a tiny two-place gondola with nearly conventional controls, landing gear, rudder...
...opening day as they peeped into the main trading floor, 113 ft. x 163 ft., where business was going on as usual in the wheat pit (38 ft. across) and nearby corn, oat, rye pits. Visitors gaped at the world's largest light fixture in the lobby- a shaft of glass and metal. In a smaller room beyond. Board members will trade in securities at the rate of 10,000 to 15,000 shares...
...James Hughes, porter in a telephone building, took Miss Barbara Westlake and Mrs. Stephanie Werner, switchboard operators, up in an elevator, stopped it above the third floor, turned around and tried to buss Mrs. Werner. Miss Westlake became hysterical, Mrs. Werner jumped out of the elevator, fell down the shaft, died...
...years ago Albert Fieri, 19, a lather, was working on the new Equitable Trust Building, partly Morgan-owned. A plasterer sent Fieri to the 16th floor for materials. Fieri opened a door, stepped out into an air intake shaft over the J. P. Morgan & Co. building next door, dropped 165 ft. into a subcellar. Permanently paralyzed with a broken neck, he was carried into court on a stretcher to sue for $250,000. Last week a Manhattan jury allowed him $110,000 for his injuries against the Morgan Company and three other concerns...
About once a year, and usually in the springtime season, it becomes necessary to direct the shaft of editorial invective against an unfortunately large body of amateur shop-lifters who surreptitiously smuggle books from the open shelves of Widener Library Viewed from the impersonal stand-point, the existence of such a number of gentlemen of easy conscience is amazing, and the losses, which average over 300 books per year, are far greater than one would suspect. From the strictly personal standpoint, there is absolutely nothing more annoying or futile than searching on the shelves for books which have already clandestinely...