Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lighter than a Chevrolet, is a 55-h.p. wrap-around-look car that gets 35 miles per gallon. It is expected to sell for about $1,800 v. Chevrolet's cheapest price of about $2,000. The Opel, which approximates the Victor in performance, will get a face-lift before appearing...
...ground other airmen, following radioed reports of Flugum's plight, ordered another approach. A T-33 jet trainer went aloft, slowed near to stalling speed as the pilot tried to lift Flugum with his wing so the crewmen aboard the C-123 would have an easier time of it. The trick failed, possibly because by this time the paratrooper was hanging limp and apparently unconscious...
...special to trust. Gravitation might act differently if more antimatter were around. A sample of antimatter, for instance, might retain its inertial mass but be repelled instead of attracted by the earth's gravitational field. Its weight would be less than nothing; it would actually tend to lift itself. In an "anti-galaxy," a bit of ordinary matter would be repelled in the same...
...came news that the slipping U.S. home-building industry may finally have hit bottom and bounced back. Preliminary estimates of housing starts in April show an increase of about 20,000 units more than in March, the first sizable increase in eight months. To give the bounce even more lift last week, the House passed and sent to the Senate an omnibus housing bill that will 1) sharply lower Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage down payments, and 2) increase the mortgage buying power of the Government's Federal National Mortgage Association by another $1.25 billion to $2.85 billion...
...refinancing program successfully-and $28.5 billion in short-term notes will become due this year-it will probably have to boost its interest rates. In any case, it can expect little help from the Federal Reserve Board. In accordance with its independent policy, the Fed did not lift a finger to buy notes in support of the Treasury's floundering new issue...