Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fishermen's Luck. In Auburn, Me., three hooky-playing schoolboys headed for a good fishing stream, thumbed rides, got a lift-but not to the stream-from Galen I. Veayo, superintendent of schools...
...ship began to roll, accelerated, began eating up footage on the blurring runway. It flashed 500, 1,000, 1,500 feet, it got up to a speed of 100 m.p.h. Still it did not get off the ground. Warned of danger by every instinct, Baldwin kept trying to lift his 30 tons of hurtling, streamlined metal. Nothing happened...
...dozen or more busy street corners in London, a passer-by could stop and hear an old-fashioned soapbox speech on politics. It was a new fashion of the Conservatives, who suddenly seemed to be under the influence of a big dose of triple-strength Benzedrine. They got a lift from a Gallup poll. It showed a Tory gain and a Labor loss in public popularity in the last year; they were now neck & neck, and if an election were held this week it might be either's neck. Moreover, the street meetings semed to be going well. Tories...
...They have the basic advantage of being able to rise and descend vertically, avoiding the high-speed take-offs and landings which are the cause of many airplane accidents. But they have special hazards and problems of their own. There are four factors (thrust, weight, drag and lift) which must be kept in proper balance. A helicopter has two sticks controlling the main rotor. There are also the throttle and rudder pedals. All these must be managed with perfect coordination. A helicopter cannot be stalled like an airplane, but if the power is cut too much, the rotor blades...
...private foreign trade. A Government trade mission arrived in Tokyo to survey Japan's shattered industry. The mission wants to find out what Japan can make, what raw materials will be needed, and how material imports can be financed. Then, some time this summer, it hopes to lift the ban on private trade. Even then, trade will be strictly regulated, and bulk commodities like tea, raw silk, and cotton goods will still be handled by the U.S. Commercial...