Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beck's election was a sign of his power rather than of his popularity. Few top A.F.L. officials like him, and even fewer trust him. But, at 59, he is one of the half-dozen most powerful labor bosses in the nation, and he is still on the climb. Beck's enemies insist that his goal is nothing less than a single, giant labor federation, with himself as its boss. Since he succeeded Dan Tobin as Teamster president last year, Beck has kept on the offensive, recruiting and raiding uninhibitedly. Last week he predicted a teamsters' membership...
...fighter planes, Britain's small Folland Aircraft, Ltd. is building a light, simple jet fighter, the Gnat, that could be produced in swarms to fight off bombers. Weighing only 5,500 Ibs. (v. 16,500 for the Sabre jet), the Gnat will carry twin 30-mm. cannons, and climb to 40,000 feet in less than five minutes. Northrop, Lockheed and North American have also proposed building lightweight jets, and the Air Force will soon ask U.S. plane builders to submit plans...
...animal. ... It is not my fault if the King is half-size. Naturally he won't be able to do the parade step without making himself ridiculous. He will hate it for the same reason that he has always hated horses-he has to use a ladder to climb...
Shoot First (Raymond Stress-United Artists) is the latest pedestrian movie to try a climb up John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps. Despite a slick script by British Whodunit Expert Eric Ambler, the film trips over its own footage...
...memoirs to Writer Pete Martin, and they have been published under a title, Call Me Lucky, calculated to retouch the custom-made halo of modesty around one of the shrewdest heads in show business. Already published in excerpt by the Post, Call Me Lucky is now off on a climb into bestseller lists...