Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which a live raccoon was tied high and safe. First to reach the tree was a 4-year-old redbone coon hound named Rudd. The race was over but Rudd did not know it. Up the slightly slanting tree trunk he clambered some 18 ft., clung there until a ladder intended for the coon was used to retrieve him (see cut). Amazed coon-hunters, who had often seen their dogs scramble a few feet up a tree and somersault back, swore they had never seen anything like that climbing coon dog Rudd...
Headed by George F. Bigelow '39 an Adams House group has started the first House bowling ladder over to be run in the college. Fifteen men make up the ladder which is divided into three sections of five men each...
...Fairless was 5, his father swore that the boy should never go into the mines. He never did. After high school he taught until he had some money saved, then went off to study engineering at the College of Wooster and Ohio Northern University. Up, up, up the industrial ladder he climbed-vice president & general manager of United Alloy Co. at 36, president of Central Alloy Steel Corp. soon thereafter, executive vice president of Republic Steel at 40. Finally, at 45, the boy from Pigeon Run became president of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., biggest steel-producing unit in the world...
...Westmoreland County, Pa. mine, he complained to the weighmaster one day that he was being short-weighted, got into a quarrel about it, knocked the weighmaster down, was fired. His fellows retaliated by organizing a union, electing young Murray president, threatening a strike. Up, up, up the Labor ladder he climbed until at 34 the boy from Lanarkshire became a master of debate who knew more about the coal industry than most operators, was vice president of United Mine Workers, biggest union in the land. When U.M.W.'s President John L. Lewis prepared to risk the future...
...arrival in the front of Hollis the new truck was given the place of honor and the all-in-one-piece ladder was run up with eclat but unfortunately it was long by about 20 feet and wrapped itself around the roof. A shorter, old fashioned ladder did the trick, but as the fireman who stands on the back platform said, the new one "shore looks purity up there...