Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consumer goods, e.g., one-third down on autos, with only 18 months to pay the rest. FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin had wanted to stick to the ruling despite a 6% drop in retail sales during the first 4½ months of 1952. But he was persuaded to lift it after the twelve regional chairmen warned him that, in their districts, prices were sliding, goods moving sluggishly, and inventories piling up. Now retailers are free to fix whatever credit terms they please...
...crowd in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo, she said: "There are traitors who in the darkness of night want to poison the soul and body of Perón, which is the soul and body of the country. I pray to God not to let these fools lift their hands against Perón, because, beware, the day they do, I shall march with the women, with the workers and with the shirtless ones, and no brick shall be left standing that is not a Peronista brick...
...rivermen's gauges. But the flood, even as it fell, showed its awesome power. The suction of the receding waters pulled huge chunks of muck from the levees. On the Omaha shore, the river forced its way into sewer outlets and gushed out with enough strength to lift a truck-trailer off the street and to buckle 120 feet of concrete pavement. Army engineers quickly dropped a lattice of steel I-beams across the sewer outlets, then jammed up the barrier with sandbags by the thousands. It worked...
...Partnership. The fight started when Henry Ford II canceled an oral agreement which his grandfather had made in 1939 to manufacture a tractor for Ferguson according to Ferguson's specifications. Old Henry had been intrigued by the tractor's ingenious hydraulic lift and new method of linking other farm implements to it. Young Henry was appalled at the manufacturing costs. During the seven years of the agreement, the Ford company made 303,501 tractors which Ferguson sold along with farm implements made by others for $313 million, netting Ferguson $4.3 million in 1946 alone. But the Ford company...
...Traven?" has been one of the tantalizing literary puzzles of the last decade. Even students dedicated to unraveling the symbolism of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake will lift their noses and loose an excited bay if Traven's name is drawn across the conversation. And if, as now seems pretty certain (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948), B. Traven is the pen name of Chicago-born Berick Traven Torsvan Torsvan, 58, a shy recluse who has lived in Mexico since 1913 and runs a restaurant near Acapulco, Traven is at last in the same position as any other novelist; his fame must...