Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STUDEBAKER-PACKARD auto merger is not giving the two companies the lift they expected. Losses for 1955 totaled $30 million ($4,000,000 more than combined 1954 losses), even though sales doubled to $480 million. In an effort to recoup, Packard will bring out a new 275 h.p. "Executive" series next month. Price: about...
...Soviet Union were not selling a new brand of expansionism. But since the Soviet Union has already entered Asia and Africa with rubles, technicians, and machines, the U.S. is faced with an even more urgent task. For the twin purposes of containing Communism and helping under-developed nations to lift their standards of living have coalesced from Japan to Mexico. President Eisenhower's "Atoms-for-Peace" plan is one daring response to the challenge; President Truman's "Point Four" program was another. Long-term aid, increased allocations to the U.N., and the establishment of SUNFED will also help...
...project involving $80 million. He had 15 minutes to make his pitch to the Pentagon. I want to be sure that he knows how to make a sale"). In Texas airmen struggled through an obstacle course on which the final assignment, an exercise in crash rescue, was to lift a heavy stone from a burning cockpit. In Labrador airmen fed the dog teams used for rescue work. And off West Palm Beach, Fla. an Air Force crash boat pulled a pilot from the drink. When his engine flamed out, he had radioed: "I'm going to deadstick her down...
Captain Warren Kantrowitz, Ike Canty, Bob Hastings, Bob Barnett, and Dick Hurley will start tonight for the Crimson. Coach Floyd Wilson hopes that the team's victory over Boston College Saturday will provide a needed lift, and enable the Crimson to pull the upset that might cost Dartmouth the title...
Captain Warren Kantrowitz provided the first lift, scrapping under the boards and sparking the team as it took an early lead. Then, after a few minutes of the first half, Dick Hurley started to score on layups, and he piled up 18 points before the half was over...