Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free nations which have accumulated capital need to assist the less developed countries to carry out, in freedom, development programs. The peoples of the less developed countries must feel that they live in an environment that is made dynamic by forces that will lift them out of what, for most, has been stagnant morasses of poverty. This task is, in the main, one for private capital and normal trade, but government must effectively supplement private efforts...
...only 27 minutes for a minor technical difficulty. Running the test and pressing the big button was a man appropriately named for the job: Engineer Bob Shotwell, 47. With great restraint, Shotwell and his 40-man launch team quietly waited in their bunker a full seven minutes after the lift-off before they dared shout. Then, says Shotwell, "everybody started congratulating everybody. We knew we had done it. It was going like a bullet; nothing could stop it." To celebrate, the Atlas contractor, Convair, launched a bubbly champagne party at the nearby Starlite Motel, and the jubilant missilemen hoisted Operations...
...give López Mateos' 1,000,000 new Mexicans houses and food, to raise the nation's standards of living, to lift members of the lower class into a better life at the same rate as recent years, Mexico must create 1,650 new jobs every day. In this task Adolfo López Mateos will probably cut close to the pattern of welfare-state capitalism that has given his country its great splurge of growth...
...experience. They cannot listen to human speech or get information out of reference books. Last week psychologists, neurophysiologists and linguists gathered with mathematicians and physicists at Britain's National Physical Laboratory for an international conference on "The Mechanization of Thought Processes." Its purpose: to explore ways to lift computers above the rank of half-witted prodigies...
Satellites have copped most of the headlines as observation posts outside the earth's atmosphere. But in many ways balloons are better. They are vastly cheaper; they can be manned and recovered; and modern balloons made out of thin plastic film can lift heavy and bulky instruments above nearly all of the atmosphere...