Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complete success in every aspect with the exception of the sinking of the capsule. In your issue concerning Alan Shepard's flight [May 12], you mentioned that "if the Freedom 7 should start to sink, frogmen would be ready to slip beneath it and inflate a raft to lift it to the surface...
...Pilot Lewis of the helicopter keep trying to lift the capsule for four or five minutes, until his engine was so hot that he had to let that valuable thing sink...
...seems to me that if he had lowered his altitude by 3 ft., not even trying to move at all, the load would not have been too heavy and, in a short time, a ship could have come to lift...
...flying boat (the U.S. experimented with one, wrote it off as of little strategic value), a new three-tailed helicopter with jet-driven blades, and a huge conventional helicopter carrying a small house slung beneath it and capable of carrying 180 infantrymen (biggest U.S. model, due next year, will lift only 100). Though some of the planes on display were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging by what they saw, Western observers...
What else will supply a fresh lift for business? Economists are banking on help from increased Government spending, which will rise by some $2 billion this year and even faster next year. But if the 1961 recovery is to be brisk, something more is needed. For that extra thrust, economists are looking hopefully toward the free-spending American consumer...