Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only William Orville Douglas, the justice with the cowlick and the friendly grin, was absent; he had flown off to the Middle East to climb a mountain and make a speech...
...same way, many a company which had been trying to discover the bottom on its "back-to-normal" slide seemed to have found it-and to be starting the upward climb again. In industrial alcohol, a basic raw material for many manufacturers, the surplus had caused prices to toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft...
...rubber plant from Brazil; a vanilla tree; a plant that curls up when you touch it; a flower that eats ants; sugar cane; and a monkey-puzzle tree--supposed to be the one tree that monkey's can't climb...
...Canton the nomination of Elder Statesman Chu Cheng (age 73). Opposition included a woman legislator in slacks and a Hawaiian blouse, who yelled into a microphone: "He's too old for the job." Shocked oldsters came to Chu Cheng's defense. Said one: "Chu Cheng can still climb the hundreds of stone steps leading up to Chungking." The argument availed nothing. When Marshal Yen's name was submitted, a legislator said: "The Kuomintang has scraped the bottom of the barrel...
...plenty about the shirt business; for 15 years he had clerked in the stockroom of the family plant, worked on credit, advertising and sales. Thanks partly to the wartime boom in textiles, but even more to Phillips' shrewd, hard-selling management, the company's sales began to climb rapidly...