Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when a "new used" Chevrolet sedan went for $2,260 ($984 above the list price), found that he was loved in December. Lincolns, Kaisers, Frazers and Hudsons could be bought right off dealers' floors. So could trucks and farm equipment, once as short as Chevvies. After a long climb, employment and production in some industries were both dropping "unseasonally" at year's end. Though employment, at 60.1 million, was almost one million above the end of 1947, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost-of-living index, which reached a postwar peak of 174.5 in August, had steadily...
What little slack there was suddenly disappeared. Industrial production moved up again; the National Industrial Conference Board's consumers' price index shot up to the highest point in its 34-year history; employment, which had been holding steady, began to climb; in July it reached an alltime peak of 61,615,000. The labor shortage, in the words of one depressed Chicago personnel manager, "is worse than steel." And the U.S. had its first $1-a-pound roundsteak...
...fast 22-day climb, led by the oil stocks, Dow-Jones industrial averages went from 180.28 to 191.06, and the rail averages went from 57.97 to 62.27. Both of them "broke through" their previous high marks, established in 1947. For the large number of investors who swear by the Dow Theory, the "breakthrough" meant that the bear market was finally over, the bull market had arrived...
...would-be mountain scalars for Yale, inspired by the warmest January 8 in New Haven's history, got stranded on a lonely ledge trying to climb the 300 feet cliff of East Rock, which overlooks the city. Their frenzied cries brought rope-wielding firemen who hauled them to the top, but waiting policemen subdued their premature spring fever by booking them on breach of peace charges. The pair were named as Donald Renkert and Peter Mensh...
When he finally reached the mountain he sought, Frye had to climb 50 feet up the wall of a cliff to get at the inscription. Clinging to the face of the mountain, he and two native companions took impressions of the stone-writing with squeeze-paper...