Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snow stopped as if on signal, Vice President Richard Nixon pronounced the official opening, some 700 athletes craned necks to watch 2,000 pigeons climb for the sky, and the eighth Winter Olympics, born in controversy and sustained at a cost of $13 million, began last week in California's Squaw Valley...
...national output of $510 billion in 1960 is right on the line. Martin R. Gainsbrugh, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Board, and Roy L. Reierson, chief economist of Bankers Trust Co., took an even more sanguine view: they believe that the gross national product may well climb as high as $520 billion...
...restart version of the Agena has not yet done its tricks in space, but in ground tests it has performed well. When used in the second stage of a satellite launcher, it will use most of its fuel to make the satellite climb toward a high apogee on the far side of the earth. Left to itself, the satellite would descend again to the low point (perigee) where it first went into orbit. But at apogee the Agena will fire a second time, giving enough additional push to put the satellite on a high, near-circular orbit, and keep...
...report, "is for federal financial assistance to the states that have extremely low personal incomes relative to the number of schoolchildren." In 1957-58, for example, eleven mainly Southern states with 22% of U.S. public school pupils spent less for education than 80% of the national average. To climb even to this level would have required a stiff (and "unlikely") spending boost, from 13% in Maine to 63% in Mississippi...
...hope the economic environment and financial conditions will prove so stable as to make another increase in the prime rate unnecessary." So Chairman John J. McCloy of Chase Manhattan Bank last week told stockholders. McCloy had plenty of evidence that the months-long climb in money costs, which has carried the prime rate to 5%, highest in nearly 30 years, has spent its force. At its usual weekly auction of 91-day bills, the Treasury was able to sell at a yield of 4.12%, down from 4.44% a week earlier and half a point under the high...