Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...construction industry also broke a record. The U.S. Commerce and Labor Departments reported that spending in January for private construction topped $2 billion, up 20% from 1954 levels. Although unemployment took its usual January climb (mostly because retailers laid off temporary Christmas help), the new jobless (500,000) were 35% below last year's January layoffs. The new Labor-Commerce unemployment index (100 equals 1947-49 average) showed that unemployment has dropped steadily from 140 last summer to 114 in January...
...existing mailboxes in the old freshman dormitories are located above the first floor and they have only narrow slits through which postmen must drop letters. The mailmen have not only been forced to climb an extra distance, but cannot deliver especially large letters, and must throw magazines on the floor, open to theft...
...Bonn, Germany's normally sedate Rhine River was twice its usual girth, marooning U.S. High Commissioner Conant in his home. Whooping with glee, Rhineland children cruised their family basements in washtubs, while resigned elders watched the water level, carefully marked on the stained walls of riverside inns, climb higher than it had since...
Soby himself is bullish, with reservations : "Certainly some of the famous artists of the past 75 years may one day slide abruptly down the banister of the staircase their market has ascended by stages; some will make the climb again; others will slump forever at the bottom of the flight. It seems to me, however, that the big figures in 20th-century art will hold their lofty place or go still higher...
...general, stockbrokers, businessmen and government officials agreed that the main reason for the steady climb was the fact that business was getting better all the time. Labor Secretary James Mitchell reported last week that new claims for unemployment compensation in the third week in December had fallen to 301,700, almost 11,000 below the week before. Last minute Christmas buying boosted department-store sales a full 3% ahead of the corresponding week in 1953. And the Federal Reserve Board industrial-production index for November rose to 129, (1947-49=100), showing an unusual upturn at a season when industrial...