Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor General Wood of the Philippines. There were promising signs for the future in a satisfactory increase of the school population, more economy in Government, prosecution of those who all but wrecked the Philippine National Bank. The report dealt at length with how the Government was trying to climb out of the hole in which it had been led by the Bank fiasco (TIME, Aug. 27). The story in facts and figures: ¶ The Philippine National Bank, having invested recklessly and dishonestly, has lost in its six years of operation 75,000,000 pesos." Its operating loss is now about...
...increase the liquid value of his holdings, Stinnes, in conjunction with the other industrials, compelled the Reichsbank to abandon its attempt to stabilize the mark by "official" quotations. The dollar started its climb from the official 283,000 marks "to a probable 1,000,000 by the end of the month." This process will enable Stinnes to pay practically nothing for his recently acquired properties and thus releases his resources for his next step. His income is not affected by this depreciation, for he regulates prices strictly on the basis of dollar exchange values, putting the capital thus obtained into...
...Force pageant at Hendon, London, were given during the week a remarkable exhibition of the most recent military planes. Among other exhibits was a bomber equipped with a single engine of 1,000 horsepower, the most powerful airplane engine in the world, which can beat in speed and climb any bomber ever built. On the other end of the motor scale was the " Wren"-a tiny machine flying 50 miles an hour with only 3 horsepower. Thirteen " secret" airplanes were seen by the public for the first time. Experts and the public in general seem convinced that England leads...
...flying field near Schenectady, N. Y., John D. Smith, of Chicago, jumped at 2,000 feet with a parachute which failed to open. Entanglement in the landing gear of the plane checked his fall, but desperate attempts to climb into the cockpit were futile. The pilot with admirable presence of mind flew a few feet above the Mohawk River into which the parachutist jumped. But not knowing how to swim, he was rescued just in time from drowning - and probably gave no further exhibitions that...
...Tells the Story of His Fameward Climb...