Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether the economy will be able to absorb the greater flow of goods at constantly increasing prices. Overall, the U.S. will increase its productive capacity by about 4% this year, while consumer purchasing power as measured by disposable income (a record $284.9 billion annual rate) will probably also climb 4%. Nevertheless, some individual industries seem to be expanding beyond their short-term market potentials. All manufacturing industries, for example, will add 8% to their capacity this year, a rate that some economists think is well above their expected average annual increase in sales in the next several years...
Ceiling Stand. A Christmas-tree stand that holds the tree from the ceiling instead of the floor was put on sale by Roger Products, Inc., Milwaukee. The tree will not tip over even if moppets climb it. The stand consists of a curtain rod, to which the tree trunk is fastened, with a suction cup on one end to hold the rod to the ceiling. Cost...
...will disappear without Government restrictions. Says General Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls the flow of oil from Texas fields: "The problem is on high center now, but time will eventually work it out." In the not too distant future, world oil demand will climb so high that all available production both in the U.S. and abroad will be needed. For the short run, restricting imports would not only place a heavy burden on diminishing U.S. oil reserves; it would also undo much of the good will the U.S. has built up in its efforts...
...film bursts along by following a few days in the life of a rather active chanteuse (Silvano Pampanini) who climbs the rungs of the civil service hierarchy faster than anyone of the opposite sex has been able to climb. After seducing the prosecutor assigned to throw her out of town for risque performances she continues with an austere provincial judge, and then "The Minister" in Paris. These four leading parts are all neatly cast, as are the many juicy minor roles in which such European films abound. The judge's wife is a coy hippopotamus; his maid is a laughing...
...crowd see it. Keeping his ship up in the flare-out, Pilot Howard was easing down toward the runway just over Farmer Joseph Philp's sprouts patch, 600 yards away. Suddenly he felt his wheels touch down-too soon. Ramming his throttles forward, he tried to climb skyward. At that moment the airport greeters had their first horror-stricken sight of the Vulcan, a monstrous shadow in the mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon ship!" He and Sir Harry, in their ejector seats, shot upward from the aircraft...