Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experience more severe than even, a horror-hardened moviegoer may care to undergo without a gradual preparation. Only by slow and patient teaching that the danger and the suffering must be understood and absorbed as necessary to a goal felt to be spiritual can the film lift up the heart of the onlooker to share in the triumph of the climax...
...delicate jobs under remote control, General Electric has built a monstrous, sensitive machine it calls "OMan" (for "overhead manipulator"). OMan is not beautiful; he looks like a Brobdingnagian dentist's drill. But he is a remarkable mechanical man. Obeying electric signals from a distant control console, he can lift 3,000 pounds off the floor and carry 1,000 pounds with a single arm extended horizontally. He can twist thick steel bars into pretzel shapes or tie them in knots. He can use power tools such as drills, hammers or wrenches and can assemble or disassemble all kinds...
...enthusiasts foresee the day when electronic brains will do all the paper work and robots all the labor. They have even coined a word for it: "autobution." But savings are being made by much simpler means. By merely loading and stacking goods on pallets, and moving them by fork lift, the cost of hand-loading is cut as much as 50%, and the capacity of warehouses is more than doubled. Such savings are important, but the biggest chance to cut distribution costs is at the retailer's level. Two of the most promising developments have been the rapid increase...
...letter to Frederick J. Willman '56, president of the Young Democrats, Truman wrote, "It gives a man a lift when he is making a fight for the welfare of the whole country and the young people appreciate what he is trying to do." The Young Democrats had telegraphed Truman congratulations after his dramatic televised reply to Brownell's charges...
...Engineer's Nightmare. All this was harder to do than to plan. He had to build a hub that would contain all the gear necessary for these subtle and complicated changes of altitude and still let the blades ride free (to kill gyroscopic effect and preserve a balance of lift), supported horizontally only by centrifugal force. The hub was an engineer's nightmare. There was only one way to ferret out its many early imperfections. Sikorsky had the VS-300 tied down with stout ropes to keep it from rising more than a few feet. Then he climbed into...