Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales have jumped an average of 14% each year. On his personal score card, Tom Watson Jr. has done even better, with an average gain of 19% for his three years. It is estimated that IBM's gross this year will hit $500 million, and profits will climb to $56 million...
...Frank O. Prior, 59, was named president of Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), replacing Alonzo W. Peake, 64, who will retire May 3 after 34 years with the company, ten as president. (Robert E. Wilson remains board chairman.) In his climb up the ladder, Prior often moved on to the rung vacated by Peake. A Stanford engineering graduate (1919), Prior started work as an oilfield laborer for Midwest Refining, where Peake was an oilfield superintendent. Shortly after, Standard bought Midwest, and as Peake moved up, Prior followed. In 1928, Peake was made president of another Standard subsidiary, Dixie Oil, and when...
...cruel chopper and rain theories are other possibilities. The former blames tree "trimmings" for leaving the squirrel without home and food caches. Possibly number four had to climb to such heights before reaching a branch that he died of over-exertion. Equally fatal is the rain theory, which visualizes the creature scampering innocently across the Yard, then sinking into the mud with only a brown bubble for a headstone...
...only sour not was struck by Norman A. Hall, Alumni Bulletin editor, who commented. "The Bulletin began this parody bandwagon on Saturday. Now a lot of ninnies are trying to climb of our caboose." Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, told Hall to mind his own damn business...
Even so, it is liable to be a long, hard climb. Though none of the foreign airlines, which have 26 Comet II's and Ill's on order, have canceled out, de Havilland will have to renegotiate each contract again, and it has 20 Comet II's already substantially completed in its hangars. To guard against too heavy a loss. Minister Boyd-Carpenter said that "a number of Comet II's in a modified version are being ordered for delivery to the R.A.F. . . as early as the work involved allows...