Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Climb Aboard. How profitable Yachting is has always been Publisher Stone's secret. It has stiff competition from Hearst's Motor Boating (circ. 51,599), which has more and more broadened its range to include sailboats. In 1938 Stone made sure that his magazine would always have solid backing by getting such famed yachtsmen as Pierre S. du Pont III, Henry S. Morgan, R. J. Reynolds and 17 others to join him in buying the magazine from John Clarke Kennedy (Forhan's Toothpaste), who ran it as a hobby. The present owners, said Stone, merely want...
Prices, which have been relatively stable for months, last week started to climb again. Steelmakers, as expected, raised their prices about $4 a ton to pay for their latest wage boost. Their biggest customers, the automakers, said they would absorb the increase. But General Electric announced that it would boost the prices of many of its appliances, and others were thinking of following suit...
...Wall Street and Main Street . . . In the days of Horatio Alger and Calvin Coolidge, business was the pin-up hero. Then came the financial crash and the Depression. That tragedy gave every rabble-rouser a chance to blame business . . . It has taken business more than two decades to climb back to where it is respected and trusted again...
...Viva! Viva!" It has been about 15 years since De Gasperi dug his climbing boots and pickax into an Alp, but he still suffers the mountaineer's fever-the looking for other peaks to climb while still chivvying and picking his way up the peak beneath his feet. "He always sees the next summit," explained a friend. Last week in Genoa, where bombed-out ruins of the past are still visible behind the shiny new fagades of the present, he stood before a mass of dockworkers and shipworkers...
...went all afternoon. Not that she always won. Once, when she picked "Scipio," I followed her advice and we both lost when the animal ran second. But by the ninth she had five winners and "Scipio" for a second. Mike was busy over the form sheet, trying to climb out of a ten dollar hole, while I, who had taken the right advice all at the wrong times, had pretty much given...