[Ads-l] Antedating dropshaft (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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It was only recently that I realized that BNW has entries that are not on the OED SF webpage.  I don’t have a copy of BNW at work, and didn't check it.

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> Nice find in "Gulf", Bill!
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> Brave New Words has this 1952 citation:
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> 1952 Anderson, Poul. "Star Plunderer" in Planet Stories (Sept.) 58/2:
> We were herded down the long corridors and by way of wooden ladders (the
> drop-shafts and elevators weren't working it seemed) to the cells.
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> Jeff Prucher
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