Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banking business. After 1954 loan disbursements dropped rapidly. By 1956 Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart had managed to convince Secretary Humphrey that Ex-Im's soundness and buy-U.S. policy helped U.S. industry without being a giveaway, and disbursements began a new climb...
...discount cut is bound to make it easier-and cheaper-for the Government and business to raise cash. At the prospect of lower rates, long-term Government issues last week speeded up their recent climb; yield on one issue dropped to 3.93% v. 4.27% less than two months ago. Wall Street hoped that the Fed's next move would be to lower the 90% margin requirements on stock purchases. Brokers feel that the market, like the economy, has behaved well-and now could also use a little easier credit...
...Visage. Leaving Lisbon the next day, the President seemed rested, and smiled frequently, but there was a gravity in his face that seemed to pull each smile back into a lined, discouraged expression. He bade farewell to Tomas and Salazar, turned to climb the ramp into his plane. Then, as if suddenly aware that he was headed home, he stopped after three steps; his face sagged, and he stood still for a full four seconds. Then, with an effort, he pulled his shoulders back, and turning to face the airport crowds, he grinned and clasped his hands together overhead...
...land on the upper slopes, turned back again and again because of gusty winds. From Talkeetna came Don Sheldon, 37, one of Alaska's great bush pilots. Airlifting rescuers, Sheldon shuttled dozens of men to a base camp at 10,200 ft., where they began their careful climb. When Crews reported that Mrs. Bading's condition was worsening, Sheldon gunned his Piper Super Cub to an uphill landing on a glacier at 14,500 ft., waited as Crews and another member of his party stumbled down to the plane and then whisked the woman to safety. In another...
...Leontyne Price, the climb to La Scala's stage seemed remarkably easy. She started her musical career playing the piano at funerals at home in Laurel, Miss., where her father was a sawmill laborer and her mother a midwife who "delivered more babies than necessary so I could have piano lessons." At Central State College in Ohio, Leontyne discovered she had a voice, went on to Juilliard, where Critic-Composer Virgil Thomson heard her and asked her to appear in his opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. From there she joined the touring revival of Porgy and Bess...