Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climb back toward the top had been a painful journey, marred by some nightmarish detours into the bush. A dismal five games into third place in mid-July, Manager Walter Alston had to read the riot act to his world champions before they finally got themselves untracked. Duke Snider, the league's leading homerun hitter, began to hit a few (32 at week's end). Cleveland Castoff Sal Maglie started pitching the kind of games he once turned in for the Giants, going the distance in all five of his victories, two of them shutouts. With the team...
Small business, always a tender spot in the economy, accounted for most of the 1,100 business failures a month during the first six months of 1956. This was a postwar record. Yet it was an inevitable reflection of a rapid climb in business starts (from 348,000 to 406,000 in 1951) five years ago. Said Dun & Bradstreet: more than 50% of the failures were in businesses under five years old; more than 90% could be traced to "inexperience." To attack this problem, the Administration last week completed a sweeping 14-point program...
...while Gulek tried to counter the police with Gandhian tactics-simple handshaking tours. For the last 100 miles of his trip he abandoned ship and moved by car along the lush southeastern shore of the Black Sea, where the corn grows eight feet tall and string beans climb way up over a man's head. In this country, where peasants came out to the road to present him with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace, Gulek soon found that...
Within seconds, the plane's Curtiss-Wright rocket engine-powerful enough to drive a Navy cruiser-cut in with a roar. Violently the X-2 shot forward. Everest brought up her nose and began an accelerating climb to 70,000 ft. There, under the deep-purple sky, he leveled off, fired up all the rocket power he had and set out for his goal: 2,500 m.p.h.. 850 m.p.h. faster than man had ever flown. The machmeter danced upwards-2.1. 2.2, 2.3. But something was wrong. Trouble in the X-2's engine was holding her down...
Credit for Kermac's climb goes largely to President McGee, 52, a tall, rawhide-tough wildcatter aad geologist (University of Kansas, '26) who first went to work for Phillips Petroleum, was its chief geologist by the time he was 30. McGee did so well that when he left the company to hook up with Oilman Bob Kerr in 1937 Phillips hated to let him go, in 1943 agreed to an unusual deal to keep a string on his talents. It promised to underwrite 75% of the company's drilling costs in return for only...