Word: winches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chain down to eight. Weakest of these has been the Portland (Ore.) News-Telegram, chief loser in a circulation war between Portland's other two papers, the morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. To boost the Journal's falling circulation, its shrewd business manager, Simeon Reed Winch, last week did the smartest thing he could do: persuaded the Scripps boys to fold their News-Telegram and took over (for a reported $600,000) its features and circulation. After eliminating duplication, the Journal should get between 20,000 and 25,000 circulation from the News-Telegram, come...
...rescue chamber came within 150 ft. of the surface on its final trip up, the lower cable fouled on its winch. For three hours and 45 minutes Lieutenant Naquin and seven men had to revise their calculations on the probability of death, while around them divers worked desperately in the darkness. Finally the jammed cable was cut and the bell hauled up foot by foot. At 12:38 a.m. of the second day the U. S. Navy had rescued its living. Below, in the hull of the deep-diving Squalus, 26 corpses slept...
...between the poles. Out of the Stinson tumbled a bag of Coatesville mail. Neatly, the dangling hook snagged the stretched rope with the mailbag attached (see cut). As the monoplane picked up speed and began to climb the mail clerk in the cabin hauled in the bag by a winch, quickly had it aboard for sorting...
...said that I was towed into the sky by an airplane, which was not true. I was launched by an engine-driven winch mounted on a truck (designed and built by E. Paul du Pont Jr.) winding in 4,000 ft. of ⅜in. manila rope spread across the airport. This enabled me to climb to 800 ft. above the ground before dropping the rope...
What I consider more important than the new record is the significant fact that this was the first distance soaring flight in America made from winch tow in level country...