Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are thousands of us who have worked like hell since '31 and '32 trying to lick a depression, get experience, get established, to climb the ladder . . . yet we gladly chuck it all to serve our country. Now, some of the boys are declaring strikes over petty arguments or small wage increases and in so doing bottleneck industry which makes possible a well-equipped Army...
Anyway, we worked hard as hell to keep our jobs . . . harder still to climb the ladder. Today a lot of us have advanced and are getting along pretty well, considering everything. A lot of us, like myself, are making between $2,000 and $4,000 a year...
Assuming their place on the bottom rung of the Big Three ladder, the grapplers collapsed before a strong Eli delegation, 19 to 11, at New Haven Saturday afternoon. Simultaneously, the Freshmen were swamped by their undefeated Blue rivals...
...unable to tackle his squash as soon as the rest of the squad. He made a series of speeches in the recent presidential campaign and could not find time to work his way up into the first five until the Williams match. Marvin's rise up the ladder was not an easy one because there was a collection of prize Sophomores and much improved upperclassmen barring the way. Gene Nickerson and Sonny Lyell, a pair of Seniors, had come from nowhere to vie with Galen Felt for number one ranking. Nickerson's rise was of the story book variety. Infantile...
...when Flight 6 rumbled overhead toward the radio range. The sound of her engines died in the clouds. East of the field Pilot Scott made his turn, headed west, letting down along the beam. From the tower the operators saw Flight 6 break out over the red neon-light "ladder" marking the end of Run way No. 1 (east-west). Pilot Scott was a little high, perhaps by miscalculation, perhaps by design. Flight 6, down to around 300 feet, zipped west over the runway, made a gentle turn to the left. It looked as if Scott had decided to circle...