Word: winch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trapdoors in the floor of the airship were slid forward and athwartships, exposing grey space through a T-shaped aperture slightly larger than the dimensions of the plane. From the rear cockpit Lieut. Daniel Ward Harrigan signalled with his hand. An electric winch began turning. Slowly the trapeze descended, lowering the plane through the T into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever...
...George Winch & wife of Lake Placid, N. Y., went blue-berrying last week. With them they took their son Peter, aged two, who played while his parents picked. Also out berrying that afternoon was a large, female black bear, which gave small Peter Winch an experience few naturalists would believe though storybooks are full of such things. The she-bear picked up the child in her mouth. When he cried out and the parents came running, the bear loped away, carrying the child until she came to an open field near a railroad crossing where, alarmed, she dropped her burden...
...jostled by news cameramen seeking her husband. A delegation of New Jersey politicians came aboard. It was all Ambassador Morrow could do to squelch their demonstration in behalf of his candidacy for the Senate. Statesman Stimson, in a final interview, was drowned out by the rattle of a deck winch...