Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Utilities and building materials continued their climb. Owens-Corning Fiberglas profits rode the building boom up a whopping 53.6%, to $2,293,257. Standard Oil of California boosted 1953's third-quarter profits by 4.2%, to $50,876,733, and tacked an extra 75? onto its regular 75? quarterly dividend. But Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) eased off 11.5%, to $145 million...
...triumph brought into startling prominence in Brazil an unpredictable personality who owes allegiance to no party but has never lost an election, who sometimes talks like a two-cruzeiro demagogue but insists that "all my intellectual formation is based on Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln." He began his political climb in 1946 by winning a seat in the São Paulo city council with the help of worshipful pupils and ex-pupils. From there he went on to the state legislature, where he sponsored a record 2,007 bills (60 passed, including one to provide free gloves for garbagemen...
...Irresistible Challenge. Popo, as even the Indians call the tongue-twisting peak, exacts its toll nowadays from the young and the strong who, year after year, feel the irresistible challenge to climb the mountain. After eleven climbers had lost their lives in 1953, government authorities stepped in to regulate the traffic of alpinists. They prohibited ascents when the weather was threatening, and required each climber to have a safe minimum of alpine gear for the venture. The precautions seemed to work; ten months passed without a casualty on Popo...
...only eleven issues, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED was well over the goal line. Publisher H.H.S. Phillips Jr. announced that the magazine has a circulation of more than 525,000. As a result of the 17% increase, said Phillips, ad rates will be upped 9%, effective April 4. Despite the fast circulation climb, said Phillips, "we are more interested in a quality circulation in the hundreds of thousands than one in the millions...
...Level to 8,000 Ft. In a moderate-paced climb, the human machine does all right if no great demands are made on it. At this level, most flyers feel nothing more than a ping in the ears...