Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rising criticism was even harder on Winston Churchill for neglecting the war economy-munitions production, shipbuilding, agriculture-and the psychological lift that might be derived from a clear, impassioned statement of progressive peace aims...
...China an American dollar goes a long, long way. If the Fund succeeds in making the yuan respectable, Manuel Fox expects a quick lift in China's trade. As late as last year, Japan-for a smuggler's price-sold China most of her imported cloth goods. Smuggling had been choked off to a trickle last week. But with money to give it strength, it would revive again...
...worthy but little-known books, after months of thumbing along untrodden ways, were last fortnight picked up by a comfortable sedan-the Pulitzer award for biography and history-and given a lift toward public attention...
...rose one-third to a record of 30,298 cars and trucks while net profits dropped from $512,000 to $180,000. But some automakers bucked the trend. Nash-Kelvinator-which pioneered low refrigerator prices in 1939, followed through with a low-priced auto in 1940-saw record sales lift profits from $383,000 to $1,041,000 (best since...
...anxious to have the invasion," Sir Gerald concluded. "It may finish us off, but we are inclined to feel that we can account for it.... We shall lift our eyes to the hills, for we shall be batting for the Lord...