Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the Fair Deal's onetime economic weatherman, Leon Keyserling, could see few storm signs ahead, told a Manhattan audience: "The years ahead...can witness an unparalleled period of economic stability and growth...It is my firm conviction that we can lift our annual national product from about $375 billion now to close to $500 billion...
...last week new spirit and optimism had surged up in the men in Indo-China who must fight the ugly war, and the men in Washington and Paris who must see that they get the means and the will to win it. The new lift in morale came partly from the Allied governments, which had decided to plunge fresh resources into the war-more troops from France, more millions from the U.S. But in great part, it came from slim, trim Henri Navarre...
...capture of the speed record (held by the U.S. since June 19, 1947) gave a big lift to the Farnborough show, the world's No. 1 aviation exhibition. The show itself was as spectacular as ever, with radical-shaped aircraft cavorting all over the place. Best eye-catchers: two white Avro Vulcans, delta-winged bombers that look like great albino sting rays sliding through the sky (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The Gloster Javelin day & night fighter was another impressive delta wing...
When Australia's wool auctions opened last week, world wool producers got a nice lift. Brisk bidding sent quotations as much as 5% higher than the closing prices last June, and about 25% above their early 1952 lows. But Australia's lively market Was not much consolation for U.S. wool growers, who are in what the Agriculture Department calls "a very depressed condition." Annual wool consumption within the U.S. has fallen from the postwar peak of 738 million lbs. in 1946 to 472 million lbs., and price supports on wool have cost U.S. taxpayers $92.2 million...
...facilities. In addition, it includes the establishment of a number of new industries (basic chemicals, plastics, bamboo pulp and paper), and the modernization of others. All told, the projects call for the spending of $1.5 billion, two-thirds of which Burma's government thinks it can raise to lift the whole nation's productive capacity by 50% in a decade. The rest of the money will be sought from private-risk capital...