Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trick by forcing the air out of the lungs in rhythmic thrusts and relying on the body's elasticity to suck it back in again. A later method, developed in 1948 by Inventor John H. Emerson, operates on an opposite principle. Emerson's idea is to lift the patient's hips off the ground at regular intervals, thus lowering his diaphragm and making him breathe in. Exhalation follows naturally when the hips are lowered...
...miles beyond North Conway lies the Jackson area where trails on Black and Thorn Mountains provide heavy snow covers and a varsity of open and wooded terrain. Black is served by a 3500-foot Alpine lift which brings skiers to trails for the novice as well as the expert. At nearby Thorn there is a 4,000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows. Thorn has been improved with the widening of the practice slope and the addition of a new expert trail...
...lakes region of central New Hampshire a completely new area has been created at Red Hill in Moultonboro. A 1,5000-foot platter-pull cable lift was constructed here on a 2,000-foot slope...
...success with the Ferrying Command brought him a brigadier general's star. In August 1944 he was sent to India to take charge of the A.T.C. airlift which flew "the Hump" between Assam and Kunming in China. The month that Will Tunner took command, the Hump lift carried 23,700 tons of supplies; eleven months later, it moved 69,300 tons. Said Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer, then commander of U.S. forces in China: "Tunner created an epic in air operation...
...Small-Scale Berlin." Combat Cargo Command's first big operation was the lift to Kimpo Airport outside Seoul. Once again Tunner worked for a pulselike beat in operations, and got it. After Kimpo, as U.N. forces drove farther north. Tunner's men flew supplies-mostly gas and rations -into one airfield after another right up the line of advance. For over a month...