Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sugar Bowl has produced many Olympic skiers, the latest begin Dodie Post, a participant in this year's meet at Saint Mortiz, and is famed for its fast, steep runs...
Near Mt. Palomar's forested upper slopes thick fog drifted over the road and hail hissed out of the clouds. The three trucks groped through it fearfully, for a skid might have rolled both trucks and mirror down the steep mountainside. Then, as the mirror neared the observatory dome-shining like frosted silver and big as a railroad roundhouse-a shaft of brilliant sunlight broke through the clouds. The nearest star, the sun, was friendly...
...last man went up the gangway, Murphy's face turned upwards. His glance traveled up the steep steel cliff with the pleasure of a man savoring something infinitely pleasant. And when the braying of the whistle announced Commodore Illingworth's impatience to be off, Murphy grinned. Then, a celebrity, he went off with the newsmen...
Premium Iron was Cyrus Eaton under another name; he owned 74.4% of it, and his good friend, Otis & Co.'s President William Raymond Daley, owned the rest. The contract gave Premium 2% on all Steep Rock sales. Salesman Eaton then got the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., on whose board he sits, to agree to buy all the ore that Steep Rock could produce and Premium Iron could sell...
...With Steep Rock grossing upwards of $8,000,000 a year, Eaton has no intention of cashing in his paper profits. He now plans to open up four more open-pit mines, boost output to 5,000,000 tons in a few years. The Mesabi range is approaching exhaustion and Eaton is sure that he can sell all the ore he can mine for years to come...