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There are grab bars on the front steps that he used to hoist himself into his home, an elevator with a rope pulley that he operated himself, and he fashioned his own form of physical therapy in the long driveway, challenging himself to crutch down to the road and back.
BBC: A new New York, just up the Hudson
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Pella had an army of window plant workers after World War II, when farmer Gary Vermeer turned a modest invention--a modified farm wagon with a mechanical hoist--into a company in 1948.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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The final parade begins with deafening thunderclaps and the air is thick with smoke as group after group of Thais in robes hoist golden shrines into the air covered in more fireworks than you will see on New Year's Eve, anywhere.
BBC: Phuket's Vegetarian Festival
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In October 1957 the Soviets managed to hoist a 184-pound hunk of metal with a radio transmitter into orbit around the Earth.
FORBES: The Enemy Beneath