Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy antiaircraft weapons. At length the men started to get out and move about in groups of two and three, never far from their vehicles. Latrine screens were set up. One G.I. began giving haircuts to his buddies. At one point, Lieut. Fields himself marched up to the Communist lift-gate, raised it, got back in his truck and ordered his driver to go on through. But just as his truck inched across the line, two Russian personnel carriers drew up and blocked Fields's path. This stopped the Americans again...
...muscle of the actual moon voyage will be the F-l engine now being developed by North American Aviation, 'Inc. Each F-l will have 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust, and a cluster of five will lift the great moon-bound rockets off the ground. But the F-l also vibrates, sometimes so violently during static tests that it threatens to explode. North American believes that the trouble will soon be licked, but this is a lonely confidence...
...motorcycles in the dark, turning the headlights on and off and stopping for traffic lights along the way. They are so intelligent that they are painful to watch. It makes an American think of all those snobbish slobbish fat brown blubber-bottomed freeloading Yellowstone bears, who have yet to lift paw or claw for their country...
Litton now ranks as the nation's 100th biggest corporation, with sales that have already passed the half-billion-dollar mark and will probably reach $750 million this fiscal year. By next year, if this growth continues, its sales should lift through the billion-dollar mark and put it among the top 50 U.S. companies. As for Thornton, the organizer of Ford's celebrated Whiz Kids and onetime boss of such talent as Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and present Ford President Arjay Miller, Litton's success has made him a millionaire 40 times over. It has also...
...market today," says Nordhoff, "it probably can't recover in the next 50 years." To keep Volkswagen from slipping-it is now the world's third biggest automaker, after General Motors and Ford-Nordhoff plans to spend $375-500 million on expansion in the next five years, lift Volkswagen's annual capacity to 1,500,800 autos and minibuses. At its Wolfsburg headquarters, Volkswagen is building a new 400-acre plant, and at Kassel 2,500 workers are bustling to complete another 1,400-acre plant. Now Volkswagen has decided to build a fifth plant...