halyard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of halyard
1325–75; Middle English halier rope to haul with ( see hale 2, -ier 1) with final syllable altered by association with yard 1
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Between mid-April and early May, four N95 manufacturers - O&M; Halyard, Honeywell, 3M and Holingsworth and Vose - received a total of $134.5 million to increase production.
From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2020
Halyard promised in its 2015 statement to design a “one-of-a-kind, high-speed machine” to help federal health planners solve a production problem that had bedeviled them for years.
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2020
HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, the department that solicited the Halyard design, had a budget of nearly $1.5 billion for 2020, according to an HHS report.
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2020
Halyard said its new machine would provide a just-in-time inventory alternative and avoid waste by enabling rapid and plentiful production when a crisis hit.
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2020
"Scarcely," said Halyard, sarcastically, "unless we're grounded on a whale."
From In Search of the Unknown by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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