Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farm Prices. Leaves undisturbed the 10% rollback on livestock but forbids any further rollbacks in beef. Allows other rollbacks to 90% of the May 1951 levels or to parity, whichever is higher. On the other hand, farm prices go up if other prices climb...
Early Handicap. But the Skyrocket had started its career with a handicap. Unlike the X-1, it was designed to take off and climb with its own power. A turbojet engine was crammed into the narrow needle-nosed fuselage. There were rocket motors too, for speed runs, but they gulped fuel at a ton a minute from tanks cut down to accommodate the powerful turbojet and its accessories. Rocket thrust was never available to the pilot long enough for the plane to approach top speed...
...Malott, now president of Cornell (TiME, Feb. 5), Dr. Murphy will take over 6,500 students, a 684-man faculty, and a $30 million plant with schools of medicine, law, pharmacy, business, engineering and architecture, journalism, and fine arts. In the last twelve years, K.U. has begun to climb from its place as a solid but unspectacular state university. Under Chancellor Murphy, it hopes to climb even faster...
...past three years, the Government had apparently been getting just what it wanted in the way of $3,100-a-year junior management assistants. Of 36,000 hopefuls who took the J.M.A. exams, only about 2,000 passed, and only 1,600 were hired to start the long climb toward top-level jobs that pay up to $14,000 a year...
...guards patrol the small islands off Peru, where most of the birds live, protecting them against human egg robbers as well as against their natural enemies: vultures and condors. The islands' cliffs have been topped with walls to make the birds take off at a sharp rate of climb instead of trailing their feet and knocking precious guano into the water. Passing ships are prohibited from blowing their whistles, for even a brief toot will scare the birds into the air, where they mill in black clouds wasting their guano...