Word: skywards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keen-eyed readers may have spotted something of Jack's predicament when they read his story. The accompanying Air Force picture showed the dim outline of his hunched shoulders and stooped head as the F-94, afterburner blasting, roared skyward. "No matter," he said later, "I fold easy...
...Same day, General Motors Corp. raised prices an average of almost 5% on its 1951 models. These were the first price boosts among the auto industry's Big Three in nearly two years. The reason, said both companies, was simply that their material and labor costs had scooted skyward...
Other lavish methods of skyward travel are still available to the person who is in a hurry to get to the top so that he may get back to the bottom. The Skimobile at North Conway for example sends little cars nearly a mile to the summit of Cran-more Mountain at the rate of 1,000 passengers per hour. At Cannon Mountain the enthusiast goes up 2,000 feet in a cable car, if that's your idea...
...steam like a vaudeville Ford of the 1920s. A faction headed by former Assistant U.S. Attorney General O. John Rogge was threatening to yank the Communists out of the driver's seat-an operation which seemed likely to shatter the weakened chassis and send Henry Wallace flying skyward in a spray of worn piston rings...