Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employment was off slightly this May, he noted the average work week had increased by three-tenths of an hour. Factory orders for durable goods are on the rise, and "are behaving in a most encouraging fashion . . . The rate of decline in inventories has diminished. This will tend to lift production." The latest figures from the Commerce Department showed that for all of 1954, outlays for new plants and equipment should equal 1953's $28 billion, instead of dropping 4% as a previous survey had indicated...
Britain's industrial production index (on which 1948 equals 100) was 124 for April, up six points from the year before. Such signs of better times have already led Britain to reopen London's gold and commodity markets, end rationing on everything but meat, and lift restrictions on about half of all imports...
...propped up on steel pilings. To move to another site, all the drilling machinery had to be loaded onto barges and moved separately. The DeLong-McDermott barge comes completely equipped-even with its own caissons. They are dropped to the ocean floor through holes in the hull, then jacks lift the hull above the water, making a solid platform for drilling. When the driller wants to move, he simply lowers the hull to the water and pulls up the caissons. DeLong figures that the whole operation should take no more than 24 hours...
...Lift of Courage. Asked for a comment on his first 16 months in office, one-third of his term, the President scratched his left ear and replied reflectively: He didn't enter this kind of task with any idea it was going to be a picnic. There are many frustrations. But you get inspirations that you hadn't expected...
...amphetamine to keep awake, and highway authorities suspect that many unexplained accidents result from the hallucinations which it causes in some subjects. Dieters sometimes take amphetamine to cut their appetite, but most doctors consider this dangerous. Convicts used to chew the Benzedrine wafers from inhalers to get a quick lift, until the manufacturers changed the formula...