Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sandbars & Sioux. The typical upper-river sternwheeler, displacing perhaps 300 tons, drew a mere 20-to-30 inches of water, burned some 25 cords of hard wood a day. In emergencies, it could lift itself over shallows by means of special stilt-like spars poised on its bow. In the '70s, military as well as civilian passengers were carried, for there was increasing Indian trouble, much of it traceable to Chief Crazy Horse and his Ogalalla Sioux...
Last week President Truman could see progress, on at least one of his pet programs. Workmen started tearing out the old lift, proudly reported they had found a hoofprint of Algonquin in the cork tile floor. The cage will go to the Smithsonian Institution as a relic. It will be replaced by a speedy, fireproof elevator designed by White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow at Harry Truman's order. Until about Oct. 1 the Truman family will have to use the stairways...
...Allies to demand that Stalin lift the iron curtain is plain stupid. He is not yet ready to commit suicide. If intercourse is established between Russia and the people of the world, that will be the end of Stalin and Communism. The most gigantic fraud in history will be disclosed and its collapse will be certain. . . . Stalin knows the democracies better than they know themselves...
Last week U.S. foreign traders got a lift when Washington (on U.S. Ambassador George Messersmith's okay) freed $700 million of Argentine gold that had been stored (on suspicion that it was Nazi) in Federal Reserve vaults. They thought that action forecast better relations with Juan Domingo...
Point of Rest. Whether the champagne was buoyant enough to lift agreement from the bog of stubborn deadlock, none knew at week's end. But the attitude of both U.S. and Russian delegates indicated that at Byrnes's private dinner U.S. policy was expressed more firmly than it had ever been before. In this lay such hope of agreement as there was. For the West at last realized that, if Hitler's repeated prediction of a deadly clash between the Eastern and Western allies was to be avoided, success would not come through appeasement of Russia...