Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night life in wartime Manhattan is terrific. War workers and service men want to hit the high spots. Men about to go into service want to drink farewell toasts. Buyers need a lift, burghers a change. Money is free, travel restricted, the present arduous, the future uncertain...
...accounts) hooked up to New York Steam's 52 miles of steam mains and many of them were whoppers like the Ritz-Carlton and Plaza Hotels and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. They will boost the company's gross revenues by about $3,000,000 (30%) and lift its total steam sales to a brand-new high of 13 billion lb. Last month another 34 buildings gave up begging for fuel oil and took to steam. What all this new activity will do to New York Steam's 1943 net earnings is still a guess. But even through...
...father took in the whole situation at a glance. (The words seemed to lift me out of my cozy little armchair right into another world). 'Don't worry' he said. 'We'll clean up this mess and find something else to eat. You've done something more valuable than cooking. Forget-me-nots are more important than food...
...Crimson basketball team ended a three game losing streak Saturday night with its 43 to 38 triumph over Boston University at the Indoor Athletic Building. Strictly speaking, Coach Earl Brown's men are still a long way from their pre-Christmas form, and only an abrupt about-face can lift their noses out of the Ivy League cellar...
...offensive can be mounted against Berlin or Tokyo, 1,000 planes will be able to carry nearly 5,000,000 more pounds of bombs per trip because of 100-octane, than if 87-octane (yesterday's superfuel) were used." U.S. bombers with 100-octane have the power to lift with a shorter run, can thus operate from smaller fields, be more quickly dispersed in the event of enemy bombing. Fighters also are airborne faster, have added power for altitude and acrobatics...