Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rescue squad from the hall and traps them at the window of 600. Clouds of smoke stream out of the windows, forcing the firemen out on the sixth-story window ledge. After a terrifying delay, the large serial ladder moves to the window, and the three men shakily climb on and descend. They were among six firemen treated for smoke inhalation at Cambridge City Hospital...
...four years, quarter after quarter, businessmen have watched with astonishment as corporate profits climbed in an almost unbroken arc. No one really believed the climb could last.that long, and both businessmen and economists several times prematurely blew the whistle on further advances. This year, in particular, many started out by predicting a halt to the gains. Last week, early reports for the third quarter indicated that profits rose to a new postwar peak of close to $45 billion after taxes. In addition, the return on investment in manufacturing reached its highest level (13.8%) since the Korean...
After growing less than 3% annually in the early 1960s, East Germany's production this year will climb 5%, to $21 billion, at official if somewhat inflated rates of exchange. Though that is only one-fifth of West Germany's output, East Germany has become the top producer for the Soviet orbit outside of Russia itself. It has the highest living standard of any Communist country and-at least by its own statistics-ranks as the world's tenth biggest industrial power, eighth in production of TV sets, seventh in chemicals, fifth in exports of office machines...
...clear to his doctors that four years after the stabbing, Gormley had a heart problem. They sent him to National Jewish Hospital in Denver, where "None may enter who can pay, none can pay who enter " By the time he got to Denver a month ago, Gormley could not climb a flight of stairs without distress, and he complained that his legs kept "going to sleep." His blood pressure had soared to 240/140. Doctors could feel no pulse in his legs. Chief Surgeon Melvin Newman and his assistants at N.J.H. figured that their patient was suffering from a partial obstruction...
...last the men's clothing industry seems to be acquiring a sharper look. It expects sales (excluding shoes) to climb from $10.2 billion to $11.7 billion this year. Buyers ordered 15% more than the year before when they looked at new spring suits last month; they are expected to top that gain when they return to Manhattan in two weeks for a show of 1966 sportswear. Last week the industry's leader, Hart Schaffner & Marx, reported that its orders are up 20%, predicted that its 1965 sales will rise 14% to a record $165 million...