Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airlift, Fork-Lift. The Kidders helped to pay for a two-room addition to the Johnson house. Barbara Johnson Kidder had learned at the Mary MacArthur Center how to care for her husband. Last fall, everything was set. The National Foundation shipped out a rocking bed, a wheelchair, an iron lung, a portable respirator and oddments of other equipment. It arranged with the Military Air Transport Service to fly Kidder west. He made the trip in an iron lung (by a roundabout scenic route), with MATS supplying a forklift to heft him in & out of the plane's extra...
...That is the wonder of the modern-day fairy-land that is a New Hampshire or Vermont ski resort. Whether it's a chair lift, a rope tow, or a T-bar, there they all are. All types ride the tow. And here is where the basic purpose of the skier comes to the surface...
...front of West Berlin City Hall; massed bands played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica; Mayor Ernst Reuter delivered the oration: "Never do we want to fall victim to the system to which Herbert Bauer fell victim ... If mankind can't help us, we will lift up our hands and cry 'Oh Lord, make us free.' " When it was all over, Patrolman Herbert Bauer was laid to rest in Tegel cemetery, as a martyr of the Cold...
...Tractor. To celebrate its 50th birthday, Ford unwrapped a new tractor, its first model change since 1947. Five in. longer and 150 Ibs. heavier, the tractor has a new four-cylinder, overhead-valve engine (20% more powerful) and a redesigned hydraulic system, for plows and other attachments, which can lift loads of 1,000 Ibs. (up from 750 Ibs.). Price: $1,474 f.o.b. Highland Park, Mich...
Last week B-G rose in the Knesset to make an announcement: he had formed a new coalition cabinet with the General Zionists. The new government, he promised, would lift all nonessential controls, welcome foreign capital, encourage private enterprise, and even investigate charges that Socialist civil servants discriminate against free enterprise...