Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Lieut. Hodgkin, an elderly party (42) as the stunt-flying business goes, pulled on his long underwear, loaded his plane with blankets and took off to conquer Washington's sullen, 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier, fourth highest peak in the continental U.S. A friend in another private plane flew alongside just to keep an eye on him. Hodgkin's tiny plane toiled upward. About 400 ft. from the summit Hodgkin cut the gun, headed downhill into the shrieking updraft and settled in to a neat landing on a shallow slope. "It was easy," he said later...
...stove and warm clothes. Late that night National Park Service rangers worked their way toward the summit in 20-below-zero weather. Hodgkin said he sat in the cockpit, struggling to keep his frail craft from flipping over in the 70-mile-an-hour gale that howled over the peak. "That plane was-flying tied down," he added. "If those tie ropes had been longer, I'd have soared up like a kite...
With record employment at record wages, income-tax revenues were higher than anticipated by the Government's tax seers. Furthermore (as newspaper readers long ago knew), defense spending will not reach its peak until year's end. And in addition, there had been a helpful $1.2 billion drop in Government spending for farm support and veterans' affairs...
...bigger by the day. By next month, the headquarters will be ready for Du Pont's field commanders, now bossing the operation from a columned, pre-Revolutionary mansion near Ellenton. By summer their work force will reach 6,000, mounting to 35,000 at the project's peak next year. Target date for completion: late...
Near Pikes Peak was a creek with banks so steep that cattlemen named it Cripple Creek. The place was poor for grazing, but some Colorado promoters in 1884 thought it looked like a fine spot for a quick killing. As the story goes, they dug a shaft and fired shotgun charges of gold dust into the sides, spread the word of their "strike," and cleaned up on the dupes who rushed in to buy claims...