Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this reason King Lion thought deeply and (with due regard to what is possible) gave an order that attention should be paid to criticism. The monkeys, pointing to their ability to climb, offered to help...
...present mood of business is caution. There's been a slow climb to a very comfortable plateau on which businessmen make money and wage-earners have plenty to spend. The climb is over. The national economy could take plenty of lumps and remain where it is." Thus Harry Stoll, president of Chicago's Mandel Brothers department store, last week summed up the mood of many businessmen. Despite the slump in auto sales, tight money and sagging farm income, the nation's economy was actually holding up fine. Industrial production steadied at 142, only two points off December...
...started on a tour of his empire last week, Board Chairman Harvey S. Firestone Jr. of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. took a long look ahead at the industry's future. "In ten years," he said, "world rubber consumption will climb 52% to 4,400,000 long tons annually. If demand is to be met, plans to expand must be put into effect now." Firestone did more than talk, he backed it with cash. His company announced plans for a $5,300,000 tire factory and a plantation in the Philippines which, starting in 1957, will roll...
...Dartmouth system prescribes that a student must pass a rope climb, a standing broad jump, a speed-agility obstacle test, and a swim test within a narrowly prescribed time limit, as well as fulfilling certain other minimum standards...
...allies. Most politicians are interested only in next year's elections. Businessmen want to hedge against a possible Western recession by opening up trade with the East. Everyone wants big tax reductions. What does seem essential is that production should continue its phenomenal rise, steel output its steady climb (last year it passed Britain's), exports their swift increase, so that there can be more goods in the stores, more wages in the pay envelopes, more automobiles on the autobahnen (where there are nearly three times as many...