Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unanimously voted to ask Presbyterian congregations for a record-breaking budget of $13,429,210-a hike of $1,624,320 from last year...
...Much of this literature is of the shock variety--"Everything You Believe in is Threatened!" for example. It urges the reader to contribute money, distribute pamphlets, and write indignant letters to Congress. In addition, the C.C.G. often puts direct pressure on Congress. In urging defeat of a minimum wage hike, it sent 500-word telegrams of Congressional Committee Leaders and Special Delivery letters to every member of both Houses...
...Best Friend. On Mount Hood, Ore., Innkeeper George North had to hike out into the snows to rescue the inn's St. Bernard, stranded for four days on a rocky ledge...
...sales totaled $5,000,000 (up 92% from 1949), net prof its $308,000 (up 123%). The Port Credit plant, a shiny brick-and-glass structure on the mud flats, is turning out sets at a rate of 25,000 a year, and Barreca is ready to hike that to 50,000 on short notice. The first Canadian TV station goes on the air at Toronto next fall...
Fervent geologists enjoy their lab work as much as their field work. It is theoretically possible to graduate with only five or six outdoors trips, but most majors like to hike over the Auburndale esker or spend an afternoon chopping tillite at Squantum Beach, and call it schoolwork...