Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bust. In Denver, Pete McDonald bought space in the personals column of the Rocky Mountain News for a message: 'To my sponsors, friends and anyone else it may concern: I regret to state my climb of Pikes Peak on stilts has been temporarily delayed by a visit to the V.A. Hospital, Denver. However...
...appears that he had these devices constructed for the Underground Railway. The trapdoor leads to a secret chamber at the end of which a laddered well descends to the basement. During the twenties this apparatus constituted great fun and games for freshmen and section men who used to climb up an down the shaft. Unfortunately, the passage was subsequently boarded up as a safety measure...
...Since the oceans rotate with the earth, sea level follows the bulge. The Mississippi starts its journey 1,491 ft. above sea level at the latitudes of Minnesota. As it moves southward, its water feels more strongly the lifting effect of the earth's spin. Therefore, it can climb up the bulge, away from the earth's center. When it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, it meets the ocean, which has been raised to the same level by the same centrifugal force...
...industry after industry picks up speed, industrial production will climb up to its prerecession peak. Items...
...Electronics will do better still, says Motorola Executive Vice President Edward R. Taylor, who forecasts a 13% gain in TV sets, another 9% gain in radios. Biggest jump: the new stereophonic sets, which will climb from 750,000 units in '58 to better than 3,000,000 next year...