Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spiritual Lift. In Albany, Bell Aircraft's Benson Hamlin announced that jet planes can run on corn liquor...
...company, finding itself unable to operate at a fair profit after granting an increase set through bargaining, may go to the Office of Price Administration after six months and ask for a lift in its price ceilings...
...looked a little like a scarecrow with a fatal fascination for crows, a little like a collision of paper pinwheels (see cut). Her accessories included a big crutch with a zipper (to serve as a handbag, also as spiritual and moral support) and a little crutch with strings (to lift the skirt...
...Schwellenbach, believing that the labor storm was somewhere back in the hills, had other plans too. But he scarcely got them on paper when the facts of lift-went thundering past the facts of administrative doodling...
...after 30% increases to bring postwar wages up to wartime totals, would be content for long with 15%. But there was no law against hoping; Administration analysts hoped that by spring U.S. production-and profits-would be big enough to give a Boost to wages without a lift of prices. If done, it would be the neatest economic trick of the millennium...