Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...herself and has them running all over a bedroom. "I never had any toys as a child," she says, "and now I can afford them. I'm going to have the darnedest train layout you ever saw. I've ordered a waterfall from England and a ski lift, and hoboes to ride in the boxcars, and cows and cities. I'm going to have my own crashes right out of Charles Addams...
...Keep Up? Some small manufacturers seek to survive and prosper by diversifying. In Detroit, United Platers has begun to retail its own line of chrome-plated auto wheels, and hopes for a free lift on advertising from Buick, which will offer similar wheels (made by United) as optional gear on its '64 models. Other firms are narrowing their lines, with the intent of making fewer products better than anyone else. Beau-tee-Fit Co. of Los Angeles retrenched from manufacturing a full line of brassieres to only top-quality models, lately has begun to specialize in nursing bras. Detroit...
...Georgia's ubiquitous Senator Russell suggested that the deficit might be eased by withdrawing more U.S. military personnel from overseas stations. He asked defense officials if this might not be feasible when the new C-141 transport planes, which can lift troops to Europe in eight hours, become available...
...rebuilding program in which 60 of 84 buildings to be torn down are still structurally sound. Neilan saved his severest criticism for the Area Redevelopment Administration, whose agents, said he, are "combing the country in search of communities which will accept such tokens of ARA generosity as a ski lift or waterworks or a sewer line at the expense of every taxpayer." Notable ARA projects...
...pioneered more boldly with "psychic-energizer" drugs for lifting patients out of a severe depression than Dr. Nathan S. Kline of New York's Rockland State Hospital. And no man has been quicker to admit that the drugs take too long-usually two to three weeks-to begin to work. Since depressed patients are the ones most likely to try to commit suicide, psychiatrists would like to give them a quick lift. Such help may soon be available, Dr. Kline told a pharmacology meeting in Prague; he has found a promising accelerator for psychic-energizer drugs...