Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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November 18. Kurusu and Nomura called on Hull, proposed as a temporary modus vivendi that the U.S. lift trade restrictions laid on Japan in July. By this time Secretary Hull was convinced that there was "not one chance in a hundred of reaching a peaceful settlement"; Welles thought the chances were one in a thousand...
...none of this bullishness has done U.S. investors any good. There is no way they can trade Axis dollar bonds in London or Frankfurt. Last week Wall Street buzzed with a rumor: the SEC may soon lift the ban on trading in Axis securities...
...want to ... see how best we can lift from the ordinary man and woman this specter of fear that haunts him today. I want to consider . . . how best our common ideals of peace, freedom, tolerance and economic prosperity for all people can be realized...
...this point, a frightful thing can happen. The shock wave spoils the airflow over the wing, reducing its lift. The plane's nose drops. Faster & faster it dives. Louder screams the shock wave. The pilot struggles helplessly with the controls, but the tail surfaces do not respond normally. They cannot pull the nose up. Down to earth shoots the plane, with the screech of a siren...
...textile industry, that had loudly complained that it was being driven to bankruptcy by OPA price ceilings, managed to lift its dividend payments by a whacking...