Word: winch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that passengers will no longer have to cross rainswept airstrips between airplane and terminal, Whiting Corp. has installed a new, covered loading platform for passengers and luggage at New York International Airport. After the planes land, they are taxied onto trucks on sunken tracks, then towed by an electric winch until flush with the terminal landing and permanent conveyor belt for baggage. Price: about...
...French-built Air 102 glider stepped a foreign contestant, France's youngish (25) Gerard Pierre. As he checked his instrument panel, ground crewmen raised his single-wheeled craft's grounded wingtip and clamped a tow cable to its fuselage. Nearly a half-mile downwind, a 115 h.p. winch roared up and began to reel in the long steel cable, slowly at first, finally at a screaming speed...
...bloated and discolored. In fact, the man was alive, though drowning inwardly of dropsy and so weak that he could scarcely move a finger. There was nothing for it but to strap him in an armchair and hoist him over the side like any common lading. As the winch turned and the invalid rose lurching, the sailors and dockmen burst into jeering laughter at the pitiful figure...
...spelunkers had an electric winch and 1,300 feet of steel cable in the core of which was embedded a telephone wire. Loubens went down first. He wore water-resistant coveralls, a miner's head lamp, strong cleated boots, and a crash helmet for protection against falling rocks. It took him 90 minutes to get down, dangling in parachute harness, spinning round & round, but when he touched bottom he was farther down than the Eiffel Tower is up. Three other spelunkers followed him. They established a camp in the big vault, perhaps 900 feet long, half as wide...
Perelle spent $10,000 to put in an assembly line, and another $150 for a winch to pull it. Where Brill once used 2,300 men, on three shifts, to build ten buses, 700 men now turn out the same number in a single eight-hour shift. In 1950 Perelle cut the losses to $124,000, and rearmament brought along some $25 million in Government orders for buses and in subcontracts. Last week Perelle proudly reported that in 1951 Brill's sales rose 88%, to $23.6 million, and the company turned in a profit of $2.5 million after taxes...