Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because its Hueys were being hit by groundfire, Bell developed an armor-plated HueyCobra with a turbine engine, is hoping for Pentagon approval. Hughes Tool last spring won a contract for a light observation helicopter, is building more than 700 OH-6As, which cruise at 145 m.p.h. and can lift slightly more than their own weight...
That is the reality in Cuba today. The Cuban dictator's heart may still lift at thoughts of a violent, Chinese-style revolutionary struggle against "Yanqui imperialism." But his stomach is in Moscow-and he finally seems to realize...
...Georges Villiers, president of the Patronat, French equivalent of the National Association of Manufacturers: "For a year now, the increase in private investment has been almost nil. The government is concerned about it, but has not yet taken adequate measures." What businessmen want is for the government either to lift the freeze on prices or to put a stronger freeze on wages; either one would provide them with more money to invest...
...boat, not handsome, but a joy to hundreds of thousands in the jungles of the Amazon in Loreto state. Miss Carlson lives aboard the craft under less than adequate conditions, works from 5 a.m. until 11 p.m. daily, and is considered "the angel of HOPE" by those she helps lift out of their appalling health conditions...
...warfare. Some 3,000 of its men are trained paratroopers, and the rest are expert in heli-assault landings. Its 428 helicopters have doubled the total number of choppers in use in Viet Nam. They range from scores of workaday Hueys to 48 Chinook transport copters with a lift capacity of some 13,000 Ibs., the first to arrive in Viet Nam. Four of the First's helicopters are the only ones of their breed in the world: giant...