Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, she liked walking; someone has said that she moved like a souped-up glacier, or like a mass of primordial mud. Though young ladies did not usually walk alone at night in those days, Gertrude knew she was safe. In fact, she promised to climb a tree at the approch of a masher--then drop on him and squash...
...cover the Government's deficit for this fiscal year. But they did not become acute until summer. Then Government bonds, which had been providing speculators with fat profits as they rose while interest rates fell (TIME. Aug. 18), went into a slump when interest rates began to climb again with the economic recovery. As bond prices slid, their yields rose. Secretary Anderson found himself in a vicious circle; to sell his securities he had to keep edging up the interest rate. Yet every time he floated a new issue at a higher rate, prices of older issues edged down...
...Mark Twain became a famous author and an investor in weird business schemes, he also grew crotchety. As Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a garrulous, white-maned provincial literary lion, he strove to climb the social ladder; he was so proud of his scarlet doctor's robes from Oxford that he wore them at his daughter's wedding. But as Mark Twain he sneered at society-and sometimes at himself...
Some hard-hit industries were naturally taking more time than others to climb back to pre-recession levels. Yet even in oils, still beset by political troubles abroad and price problems at home, the fourth-quarter pickup was strong enough to cause Chairman K. S. Adams of Phillips Petroleum to predict: "If present trends continue, both gross and net income in 1959 will be the highest in the company's history...
...program to put a man in orbit and bring him back alive, called Project Mercury, is distinct from the tests scheduled for the stub-winged X-15 already built by North American Aviation. Inc. Essentially an extra-tough airplane, the X-15 will climb into nearby space under its own rocket power and glide quickly back to earth under full control. Project Mercury's space capsule will be designed to achieve an around-the-earth orbit, but it will land passively by parachute...