Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bubble goes with squeak. Girls with hats bearing mottoes, "Cuddle me quick" or "It's now or never," stormed the distinguished guest with autograph books. Miners pranced past with placards that told of deprivations of the past and displayed likenesses of men who had helped in the climb from poverty. All that seemed far away in happy Durham: today miners are a privileged class in Britain. Because Britain so badly needs them, they get better rations and more government benefits than any other group in the land, while Britannia figuratively begs them to help save her from the shame...
...First climb Kanchenjunga," runs a well-known mountaineering challenge, "then Yerupaja." Since no one has ever scaled Himalayan Kanchenjunga (though eight men have died trying), anybody in his right mind might conclude that Peruvian Yerupaja ("The Butcher") is strictly for the birds...
...usually mastered more easily if a bottle of smelling salts and/or a double dollop of gin are placed close at hand. According to ancient ritual, the beast must be plunged alive into a potful of boiling water; it invariably spends the better part of two minutes frantically trying to climb back out, and the cook needs a firm hand to keep the lid pressed down until it succumbs...
Such a plane will be a serious rival to the ground-to-air guided missile. With no pilot (and therefore no pressurizing, cooling, ejection seats, visual instruments, etc.), it will be smaller and probably cheaper than a piloted interceptor and it should climb faster and fly farther...
Seaboard's fast climb has been piloted by two brothers: Raymond (35) and Arthur (38) Norden.* Born in New York, both learned to fly in the Navy, later served in the Army Transport Command, where they learned enough about cargo flying to be enthusiastic about its future. With $80,000 from relatives and friends, and $200,000 from banks, they started Seaboard in 1946 with two surplus C-54s. Quipped Art Norden: "If you have one plane, you're a pilot; if you have two, you're an airline." In 1947, Seaboard grossed $269,000, made...