Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court Justice William Douglas likes to climb the highest mountains and talk to the lowliest of men, preaching a vague gospel of liberalism. Two weeks ago, returning from the Himalayas and points south, he announced that the U.S. ought to recognize Communist China (TIME, Sept. 10). Last week in Seattle, he had more to say about U.S. policy in Asia...
...sambas, Charlestons and a troupe of acrobats diverted the guests in the palace until dawn. In the courtyard, lordly Don Carlos had provided a special party for the common folk, including soft drinks, which they paid for, a free Punch & Judy show, and a contest to see who could climb to the top of a greased pole. There was even some mingling between the two worlds. One reporter spotted Mme. Louis Arpels (her husband is the famed Paris jeweler) dancing with an open-shirted Venetian lad in the courtyard...
...twin jets initially in its small, almost wingless body, looks more like a guided missile than an aircraft. As a "flying laboratory" for the Air Force, it is designed to top 1,800 m.p.h. and climb as high as 200,000 ft. For the X-3 and Planemaker Douglas, it looked as if the ceiling was just about unlimited...
...payroll. To make ends meet, he turned out frying pans, book ends and metal panels for trucks. But when stainless steel was developed in the early '30s, Solar was the first to use it for exhaust manifolds, by 1933 bagged $80,000 worth of contracts and began to climb...
Different Standards. Despite its long climb, the market is still not as high as it looks. In prices, it is getting within long-range shooting distance of 1929's Himalayan peak (381.17). But sales and earnings have so far outstripped 1929's that comparisons with 1929 prices are no longer valid...