Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eleanor Freeman, 47, learned one Saturday morning three years ago that her husband had just been gravely injured in a fall from a cargo lift on the Philadelphia waterfront, and he sent word to sue. So she dashed off-not to the hospital, but to her attorney. Suits filed on behalf of living victims, she knew, tend to be more remunerative under Pennsylvania law than suits filed by aggrieved heirs. As the injured man's wife, she was authorized to file a suit on his behalf-but only so long as he remained alive. The complaint was typed...
...readily turn to industrial and consumer markets. Automen predict a big demand for cars among discharged veterans, and the housing industry, now confronted with another pinch in its mortgage-credit lifeline, foresees a major upturn fueled by lower interest rates if peace comes. Such an upturn would also lift sales of appliances, furniture and retail stores...
...executive offices of the Sack Theatres are the final proof of Sack's accession. They are located in the Sack Savoy. To reach them you must take a small, antiquated elevator, with a hand-operated grate and an erratic control button. It climbs slowly, cautiously--rather like the temperamental lift that displayed more personality than Julie Andrews in Thoroughly Modern Millie. The elevator opens--hopefully--onto a nondescript corridor. You pass a press room, then a secretary's office. The inner sanctum is a large room that, despite its heavy furniture, appears empty. There is an imposing mahogany desk...
...first result of the 51% discount rate, highest since the 6% rate posted by the New York Reserve Bank for three months in 1929, was a rush by commercial banks to lift their minimum lending rate from 6% to a record 61% annual interest. That "prime rate," as bankers call it, applies to borrowing by their bluest-chip corporate customers. Other interest rates throughout the economy scale upward from that level. Bankers predicted that loans will now grow costly enough to crimp small businessmen, capital-goods industries and local government construction projects. Worst hit, as usual, will be new housing...
...American, whose Clipper flying boats pioneered transpacific air services in the 1930s, would lose its long monopoly on U.S.-flag service to the South Pacific islands. But it would receive new lift elsewhere, including New York-to-Tokyo Great Circle flights in competition with Northwest and new services to Hawaii and the Orient from three West Coast cities. It would also get permanent permission for its recently inaugurated flights from New York to Hawaii and the Orient. Passenger stopover privileges on these flights, now limited to San Francisco and Los Angeles, could be expanded to other West Coast cities...