Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite a few businessmen wasn't covered in the story. All isn't hopeless for the company with the desire for the dramatic and utilitarian, but finds itself in what may be considered antiquated quarters. Just as Saarinen remodeled his Victorian farmhouse, so commercial outfits can face-lift their current quarters to get the operational advantages from today's "mature" modern without having to start from the ground...
...close to Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight. What helps make such speed possible for a carrier plane is the Crusader's stubby, sharply swept wings: they are ingeniously hinged, can be tilted upwards to act as enormous flaps on landing, increase lift and slow the plane to around 115 m.p.h. for carrier landings...
...another Olympic threat, rowed merrily down the Thames at New London, Conn, to defeat ancient rival Harvard for the 54th time in 104 meetings. ¶In the season's biggest trade, the seventh-place New York Giants swapped four players even with the St. Louis Cardinals, got a lift when Red Schoendienst, their new second baseman, hit a homer while Shortstop Al Dark and First Baseman Whitey Lockman were spoiling their debuts as Cards by making three errors...
...enduring tranquilization of state-hospital patients comes from reserpine; its effects persist as long as a month after the last dose has been administered. To cut down the cases of depression caused by reserpine, one manufacturer (Ciba) is combining it with a second drug, Ritalin, designed to give a lift...
FUSION DATA, obtained from H-bomb development, will soon be released to private industry for peacetime use. Atomic Energy Commission has already given 36 companies permits to use semi-restricted fusion-energy data, is currently debating whether to lift all restrictions at once or let information trickle out slowly. Chances are that it will come out slowly...