Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came in Alcan freighters from Jamaica through the Panama Canal to Kitimat's newly dredged harbor. In the Kitimat smelter, the power processed the alumina into the first 4O-lb. ingot of Kitimat aluminum. Now set to produce 180 million Ibs. of aluminum a year, Kitimat eventually can climb to a billion pounds as the market grows...
...team of reporters "down as far as you possibly dare" into an offshore volcano crater. When they returned and reported that the crater was full of the bodies of suicides, Shoriki built a platform overlooking the crater, ran excursion boats to the site and watched Yomiuri's circulation climb with the suicide rate. Such spectacular journalism has made Shoriki the most successful publisher in the country and earned him the reputation among Western newsmen as "the Hearst of Japan...
Transports & Jets. Last week President Wallace opened the throttle for an even steeper climb with a new line of big civilian planes, helicopters and light military jets. The new items...
...transport, to give flying executives the big-plane comfort, safety and speed they expect at the economy prices they like to pay. With four 320-h.p. Continental engines, Cessna's 620 will carry nine passengers (plus pilot and copilot), cruise at 235 m.p.h. for 1,300 miles, and climb to an altitude of 30,000 ft. Estimated price: about $300,000 v. up to $400,000 for a converted World War II bomber...
...back after V-J day, but it was soon able to step into a new market of flying executives and Sunday pilots. In short order President Wallace put out three models of a high-wing, single-engined Cessna monoplane that could fly at 120-140 m.p.h., watched sales climb back to $14 million in 1948. When Korea hit, Cessna's civilian planes became L19 artillery spotters. Observers used L-19s to spot camouflaged tanks hidden from 600-m.p.h. jets. Signal Corpsmen slung rolls of wire beside the wings, hedgehopped over the hills laying communications at 70 m.p.h. When President...