Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clerk), ran the 100-yd. dash on the track team. "I was getting awfully tired of running second all the time," he recalls. "Alongside the university there's some railroad spurs. I got the idea that running through the spurs in the snow I'd have to lift my legs, I'd have to get strength, I'd have to get stamina. Any Chinaman can see that." Result: a ten-flat 100 and a university record that managed to stand for five years...
Last week Ambrosia Lake got another big lift. Phillips Petroleum Co., which is sinking two mines there, contracted with the Atomic Energy Commission to build a $9,500,000 mill to process 1,725 tons of ore a day into uranium concentrate. Like many another oil producer, Phillips is hedging its bets against the day that uranium becomes a major source of the world's energy...
...racy Messerschmitt Tiger, only 50 in. high with two seats arranged tandem fashion under a lift-up plastic dome. Fastest of all the midgets, the Tiger has been clocked at 87 m.p.h...
Millions of them-young, 39, and old-are doing it. The hair-coloring fad is the biggest-booming (1956 sales: $35 million v. $3,000,000 in 1946) cosmetic lift since the invention of gay deceivers. Across the U.S., 100,000 beauty shops and drug counters are supplying eager heads with a whole spectrum of tints (cosmetologists never say "dye") that sport such come-on names as Golden Apricot, Sparkling Sherry, Fire Silver, Champagne Beige and just plain Black...
...will rule on the 6% fare hike. One possibility is that it might grant a temporary increase pending the outcome of the long-range General Passenger Fare Investigation, which it is now conducting independent of the 6% request. Whatever happens, most airlines consider a 6% boost only an emergency lift. For the long haul they argue that at least a 10% increase is necessary to preserve the air fleet which the nation's security and economic well-being demands. The alternatives, say the airmen, are two: either the weakest airlines will fold and the middling ones merge, concentrating...