Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manager somewhere will get a quick telephone call from Hilton. Recently Hilton launched a big drive to make Hilton employees more courteous to guests, had behind-the-scenes spots in Hilton hotels plastered with posters that asked: "Have you smiled today? It's bound to give you a lift...
...Saunders appointment, which helped to lift the Pennsy's stock last week, came at a time when almost all railmen, dour for so long, are smiling for a change. Rail shares on the Dow-Jones average have risen more than 50% since last October. They briefly touched a seven-year peak last week. Because of the economy's general strength, the Association of American Railroads predicts that carloadings in this year's third quarter will rise 3% over the same period a year ago. The backlog of orders for new freight cars has jumped from...
...script of one recent Ulm play consisted of words viewed through punch cards and spoken under orchestral direction. In another, actors mounted the stage and began reciting the opening chorus, each at his own pace. "Come. See and stand. Lie down. Sleep. Lift, eat, drink and walk. It is light enough to see everything. Hear, talk, speak clearly, breathe, move. Toward, back . . ." Director Claus Bremer, 39, explains it all simply. "If there is nothing more today that is absolute," Bremer says, "then I would like nothing more to be formed onstage that is absolute...
...than 250,000 of its elevators in operation around the world, Otis does double the business of its only real competitor, Westinghouse, makes about 25% of its money by maintaining the elevators it installs. A battery of 58 Otises hum up and down the Empire State Building; Otis elevators lift planes aboard the carriers Saratoga and Independence and promenaders aboard such liners as the France, the Leonardo da Vinci and Cunard's Queens, raise Atlas and Titan missiles into firing positions at missile sites...
...walls and roof have been freed from the rock around them, they will be sawed into chunks weighing not more than 30 tons each. Some of the pieces will be split apart and the breaks joined later. Blocks that are weak will be held together by bolts. Cranes will lift them one by one and deposit them gently on beds of sand on top of the cliff, where they will be wrapped in plastic sheeting to protect their surfaces. When the lowest of the blocks arrive, they will be placed on a concrete foundation. The temple will be reassembled...