Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London childhood. He had loved "the little girl who lived next door [and] vowed that some day when he conquered the world, he would return and marry her . . . When he was well established, he returned to Whitechapel to claim his little bride. Just as he started to climb to her little room, a tiny white casket was carried down the stairs. . . . She had died of starvation while waiting for him." Charlie "would cry while telling this story...
...stratospheric reservoir" to raise the strontium 90 in the bones of children in the Northeastern U.S. to as much as 4.3% of the MPC. If weapons testing continues at the same rate as the last few years, the average for the entire population of the Northeastern U.S. will gradually climb to about 20% of the MPC by the year...
...have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades and out to sea. Nothing has really succeeded. At dams higher than 100 ft., fish have to be trucked by land both ways, and Nez Perce sounded like a conservationist's nightmare. Not only would it be 800 ft. high...
...activity, the U.S. light-plane industry thinks it has hardly started to climb. Surveys show that there are at least 150,000 potential customers who could gain by flying their own planes. The Civil Aeronautics Administration is already beginning to worry over how they will all fit into the crowded air. So far, the businessman's safety record is good, with only i.i fatal accidents per 100,000 aircraft hours v. a rate of .73 per 100,000 for scheduled airlines. Yet, as more and more planes go aloft in all weather, it may get to the point where...
...crop about harvested, Farmer Harris could figure on little profit. Bad weather cut his crop severely. He had counted on two and a quarter 500-lb. bales to an acre, but is harvesting half a bale less an acre. In addition, cotton prices have so far failed to climb above the 34? a lb. Harris counted on to bring a profit. Since Harris had harvested less cotton than the total that the Government estimated when it assessed the huge penalty, he is eligible for a rebate, says he will apply for one this week. Said he sadly: "It looks...