Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short Time. Russia's plan is breathtakingly simple. She wants to rebuild her bombed-out, scorched-out industries, and lift her entire economy to well-oiled mechanical efficiency-in three years. In effect, she wants to do the same job that took 25 prewar years to accomplish. The bill for this, from Russia to the U.S., will be roughly $10 billion, to be spent here for machine tools, agricultural equipment, power plants, oil refineries, i.e., in the very industries whose postwar outlook is blackest...
...weight) is the biggest single catch taken annually from the teeming Great Lakes waters, which are the biggest single source of fresh-water fish in America. This year, despite the manpower shortage and a run almost two weeks late in starting, lake fishermen hope to lift 17 to 19 million Ib. from the shallow inshore waters where the herring come in to spawn. Such a catch, well under 1940's 22,480,000 Ib., would be worth more than $600,000 these days, well over...
Most (all but 3%) favored leniency for the veteran with a good record who cracks up; all but 8% would givethe green man a lift...
...years of journalism, 100 days awaiting execution in a Franco prison, six years of watching prewar Leftism crumble under the shock of totalitarian war, Hungarian-born Author Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) has learned to lift himself above the battle. Last week in the New York Times, he wrote that the great events of today are only events in an "interregnum," that an age is dying. Said Koestler...
Carstairs Bros. Distilling Co. last week released a handsome brochure on how to stay in the retail liquor business though short of whiskey. Its "practical pointers from smart retailers" may give the average U.S. barkeeper or liquor dealer a lift. But for the average, about-to-be-parched whiskey-bibber (see above), Carstairs cautions sounded like an awful letdown. Sample pointers, based on actual experience...