Word: laddering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot's squash champions will meet Yale's Calhoun College today at Yale, Calhoun has a perfect record of nine wins and no defeats for this season. Moreau Brown, Calhoun's number one man, is twelfth on the northern squash ladder, and was second in the Yale Intra-college tournament...
Theodore Morrison '23, Director of English A, said that at present, the relatively sure and conventional way of climbing the college teaching ladder is to start by getting a Ph.D. and then doing research and continuing "professional scholarship." Because of the war situation, college hiring policies are uncertain, and now few new men are being taken...
...Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Bill Roberts and Bill John son are known by everybody as "The Two Bills." Reason: they were scarcely ever apart on their way up the executive ladder; both had become members of the 104-year-old company's executive committee...
...most Americans, the phrase "built like a Mack truck" conveys a feeling of strength and solidity. Founded by three machinist-blacksmiths and wagonmakers in 1900, Mack Trucks, Inc. made the first gas-driven bus (for sightseeing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park), the first motor-driven hook & ladder. Mack soon became the leader in the heavy truck industry; year after year its earnings were good, its dividends fat. But in 1949 the oldest truckmaker in the U.S. no longer seemed to be built like a Mack. Sales were well down from 1947's peacetime peak of $124 million...
Just like Horatio Alger, E. Merl Young began at the bottom of the ladder and worked his way up in no time at all simply because he was personable, persevering alert-and a friend of the man who owned the ladder...