Word: laddering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clifford J. Backstrand, 52, moved in as president of the $112 million Armstrong Cork Co. when 65-year-old Henning Webb Prentis Jr. moved up to chairman of the board. Known as a "driver and organizer," Backstrand drove himself up the Armstrong ladder from student salesman in 1921 to first vice president in 1945, was largely responsible for boosting the company's war production from $500,000 in 1941 to $39 million...
...Ladder Lack...
Such things as ladders hoisted to second floor windows don't bother the night watchmen much Purtell claims. "We've encountered only two second story crews this year, and they were unsuccessful. In one of these attempts at Cabot Hall, the climbers left their ladder for us to take care of in the morning...
Only later does the freshman realize that Houses, unlike fraternities, have no rank, that "a House is what you make it" that they all offer the same facilities with only a few idiosyncratic variations, towers being one. Only later does he learn that Harvard has no House ranking ladder...
Downstairs in the house, Doughty and his wife started toward the stairway, but had to retreat from the gasoline-fired flame already roaring through the hall. They turned quickly to follow their older daughter through a living-room window. Moments later, as Doughty tried to raise a ladder to the second story from the backyard, the walls of the house bulged outward and collapsed into a flaming crackling heap. The storm swirled the sparks and oily black smoke into the freezing night, and counted its death toll: Janet and Tommy Doughty killed in their beds, Pilot Jones, his crew...