Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the effects of past discrimination can be eroded away, the U.S. must abolish present discrimination. Some well-meaning whites exhort the Negroes to lift themselves up, study, aspire, become qualified, earn the equality they demand. Discrimination, the argument runs, would dwindle much more rapidly if disparities of culture and training were overcome. That is true enough, but the Negroes cannot wait that long. After generations of submission to segregation, they are marching in the streets, chanting "Freedom! Freedom! Freedom...
...loud in the long search. While others hawked their spectacular schemes, the Swedes worked quietly inside the temple itself. They probed the sandstone with diamond drills, measuring its strength. They charted its cracks and flaws. Finally they produced a carefully documented plan to cut the temple into chunks, lift it piecemeal to the top of the cliff and reassemble it-just as other workmen once cut up a European monastery, packed it in crates and shipped it home to be pasted together for a famed collector of antiquities, William Randolph Hearst. The cost will be a modest $36 million...
Hand in the Trap. Once upon a wedding night, a bride hid from her husband. She hid in a wooden chest that was shaped like a coffin-and then, to her horror, found that she could not lift the lid. She called and called, but no one could hear her. They looked and looked, but no one could find her. Twenty years later, they found what was left of her: a skeleton in tulle...
Models for the 1960s. Once the U.S. gets over the soft middle years of the 19605, when the war babies crowd into the labor market, the leaders of the new economy will be in a strong position to lift the nation toward much higher levels of prosperity. Their new efficiencies have enabled them to profit and expand even during times of relatively slow demand and steep taxes. Given a sensible tax structure and stronger demand all around, they should be able to raise earnings appreciably without raising prices. "All the factors for growth are there," says Gordon...
...From Standard Brands to Xerox, dozens of major companies reported record first-quarter earnings. So far this year, increased dividends have frequently gone hand in hand with better profit figures, including those reported by many of the big oil producers as well as by IBM, Nabisco and Lockheed Aircraft. Lift for Stocks. One dividend boost in particular stirred talk and buying on Wall Street. Reflecting record first-quarter profits of $414 million, General Motors last week declared a special 50? quarterly dividend on top of its regular 50? payout, which will add an extra $143 million to the pocketbooks...