Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle had dispatched Couve de Murville to Rome and Bonn to line up continental countries behind his plan to speak for Europe at the summit. There was even the suggestion that with his insistence on preparation "with care, reason and calm," and exclusion of public speechmaking, De Gaulle might lift the summit out of the U.N. morass in moiling Manhattan. He himself might, if he wished, wind up presiding over a Security Council meeting, since by rotation the chairmanship falls in August to France...
Lest any scholars chuck their books into the bay, the paper noted that laborers were required to be able to lift 140 lbs., and that so many applicants wanted laborers' jobs that the city has no plans to hold any more examinations for two years. For weak-backed or stubbornly intellectual students, there was one note of cheer: if they studied long enough to become a psychiatric social service worker, they could eventually earn more ($525 a month) than the city's laborers, although they would have to start lower...
Almost unnoticed in the recovery from recession, the U.S. road-building program has been gathering momentum, giving the overall construction industry a sharp lift at a time when industrial building is still declining. Builders report that $195 million in contracts for interstate highways went out last month, almost double May's figure of $105 million. Total contract awards since July 1, 1956: more than $2.2 billion in interstate-highway-construction contracts for 4,938 miles of U.S. highways, plus another $4.7 billion for 65,821 miles of state and local roads. The prospects are that highway work should keep...
WHILE statesmen and strongmen cope with readily visible political crises, the economic tides that lift or swamp them often begin their flow unnoticed. Across the Atlantic, the European boom that refused to bust during the U.S.'s recession months is now threatened by a downturn. Across the Pacific, Red China, out to dominate Asia politically and economically, has declared open economic war on Japan, perfecting an art in which the Japanese themselves once excelled: dumping cheap goods onto Southeast Asian markets. The deep-running courses of these economic tides are analyzed in FOREIGN NEWS: Threat of Recession and Squeeze...
...strange, ungainly bird, has been flying for two years. Single-seated, powered by one Pratt & Whitney J57 Jet engine, it has a wing so long that outrigger wheels must support it on the ground. This configuration gives the U-2 little dash but great lift and good performance at 60,000 ft. and above...