Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro, left-wing brother of Cuba's Rebel Boss Fidel Castro (see HEMISPHERE). U.S. Consul in Santiago de Cuba Park Wollam and Vice Consul Robert Wiecha jeeped into the hills, talked with rebel leaders, got a promise that Americans would be let go, set up a Navy helicopter lift that began hauling out the prisoners a handful at a time...
...Francis, ships will move into the Wiley-Dondero Ship Channel, rise a total of 90 ft. in the Snell Lock and the Eisenhower Lock ("Ike's dike," in seaway slang), pass on into the new, still unnamed lake. At the western end of the lake, a 5-ft. lift in Ontario's Iroquois Lock will hoist westbound ships into the calm waters of the upper St. Lawrence for easy steaming upstream to Lake Ontario...
...deflected thrust of its engines and balanced by its nozzles. When the pilot wants to fly horizontally, he merely adjusts the Venetian blind so that the gas stream from the engines shoots directly astern. Then the X-14 flies like an ordinary jet plane, supported by the lift of its wings and controlled by its conventional ailerons and tail surfaces...
Many details of the X-14, which was developed for the Air Force, are still secret. Bell will not say how much weight the deflected thrust will lift off the ground, but the company is confident that in the reasonably near future large aircraft, both civil and military, will be equipped with vanes and nozzles for vertical operation from small airports...
...SALES will hit 4,700,000 to 5,200,000, excluding imports, say Detroit dopesters. They figure deferred buying from this year (expected sales: 4,200,000) will lift market, though not to 5,980,000-car level...