Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even so, it was little more than an aerial curio?a compromise between an airplane and a true helicopter. Conventional-aircraft engineers felt that the long, painful struggle to produce a direct-lift machine was simply proof that the practical helicopter was an impossibility. Sikorsky did not agree. He had never ceased thinking about rotor-machines in all the 30 years since building his first. While workmen at the Sikorsky plant goggled and shook their heads, Sikorsky began flailing the air with a stationary test device made from the transmission of an old Ford, a motorcycle engine, and a single...
...Woman in the Kitchen. Stranger developments followed. United Aircraft, caught between its doubt of helicopters and its respect for Sikorsky's genius, financed an experimental direct-lift machine. Sikorsky was obligingly frugal; all his years of helicopter research cost United less than $300,000. His Vought-Sikorsky 300 was simply a framework of welded pipes with a 75-h.p. aircraft engine and a big flywheel that was linked by automobile fan belting to the transmission of a single, three-bladed rotor. Nevertheless, it incorporated most of the principles of today's Sikorsky machines...
Radcliffe's rejection of the Dior lift has put the fashion-conscious young lady on a par with college women in the east. Her insistence on comfort over submission has also won her the hearts of eastern college males. When weekends are cold, every stout-hearted man would like to have his date sensibly rather than sexily dressed. That way they both have no worries...
...Rubble Lift. Under Brauer's direction, three narrow-gauge railroads were driven into Hamburg's ruins to cart out the rubble; at the peak one train ran every ten minutes, loaded with 4,000 tons of scrap steel and mortar. Hamburg rebuilt faster than any other city in Germany: 130.000 homes. 52 schools, enough new jobs to employ 65,000 more workers than prewar. Shipping shot back to 70% of normal, production rose 6% over 1936. Back to its prewar population of 1,600,000, Hamburg once more became West Germany's biggest city...
...super-players out of ordinary mortals like Johnny Lattner. In a school where the first religion is Roman Catholicism, athletics is No. 2 for the 5.401 undergraduates who live under the strictest collegiate discipline west of West Point and Annapolis. Notre Dame football players get much of their spiritual lift from the pre-game dressing-room chats by Coach Leahy. "Usually." says a lineman, "he tells us that we are a team with a lot to lose and little to gain because we win so often. He also tells us what Notre Dame stands for all over the world...