Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward Reform. The prospects for still lower taxes helped lift business optimism last week. On Wall Street the recently battered stock market rose for the second straight week, and the Dow-Jones industrial average was up four points, to 879.49. Wall Street was further buoyed by news of another kind of surplus: the U.S. balance of payments during the second quarter ran in surplus-by about $250 million-for the first time in four years. If the trend continues, the Government will be able to relax some of its restrictions on profitable U.S. lending and investing abroad. Now that...
...atomic energy is used for peaceful purposes and preclude its use in war." Dramatically, he announced that the U.S. was willing to share its secrets in exchange for firm international controls over atomic resources and uses. The U.S., he said, "stands ready to proscribe and destroy this instrument-to lift its use from death to life-if the world will join in a pact to that end." But the Soviet Union refused to accept firm controls, and after six months Baruch resigned his post...
...Lift. Dr. Sadusk estimated that at least 8 billion amphetamine tablets are produced each year, and that no less than half of them go into illegal, nonprescription channels, for sale under the counter at bars, gas stations and restaurants. The profits are enough to give even the surliest gangster an amphetamine lift: he can buy the tablets wholesale for $1 a thousand or less, and resell them at $30 to $50 a thousand, while the illicit retailer sells them at a nickel or a dime apiece and takes in from $50 to $100 a thousand...
...section of the body for upward pitch and roll adjustments, and a single flap under the aft section for downward pitch. If angle of descent becomes too sharp, the pilot can fire the two small thruster rockets on board. Wings are not necessary to achieve stability and lift...
First-place Citibank-as Manhattan's First National City likes to call itself-this year will lift the number of its foreign branches from 113 to 132, and the Chase Manhattan will open six foreign branches in 1965, bringing its total to 37. Bank of America so far this year has opened in Singapore, Taipei and Nicaragua, plans in the next few months to move into Vienna, Antwerp, Madrid and Barcelona. In recent months, Manhattan's Marine Midland entered Europe for the first time, Manhattan's Chemical Bank went into Asia, and Chicago's Continental Illinois...