Sentence examples for operating elevators from inspiring English sources
They also had to perform chores that the doormen and porters usually handled, like sorting mail, operating elevators and carrying luggage.
There was clearly some kind of neurological link between building buildings, operating elevators, fixing pipes, and bribery, and there was nothing they could do to change that.
If his supervisor needed him to stay until midnight on his job operating elevators at the World Trade Center, he unfailingly said yes.
Rep. 423, 429, a state statute requiring elevator companies operating elevators situated upon railway rights of way to take out a license, without requiring those not so situated to do so, was held not to be an illegal discrimination.
If negotiations with the city's apartment building owners fail and the doormen walk off their jobs, residents of about 3,200 co-ops, condominiums and rental buildings will be called on to share the burdens of taking out the trash, sorting mail, operating elevators — even cleaning out lint filters in dryers.
If the doormen and other service workers had gone on strike, residents of the affected buildings would have had to perform their own chores, like sorting mail, screening visitors, hauling garbage out to the curb and operating elevators.
The City Hall building features the country's oldest continuously operating elevator -- a cushy 1906 Otis -- which anyone can ride.
"These are duty-restricted employees who operate elevators which do not require manual operation," Mr. Groce said.
Other buildings are converting manually operated elevators to automatic ones, an annual savings of about $75,000 on an operator's salary.
Most modern elevators are automatic, using various control systems to operate elevators individually or in groups.
Residents of many buildings had been asked to pitch in to sort the mail, announce visitors by intercom, operate elevators and haul garbage to the curb if necessary.
