Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worried lest the weather beat him again, Maki sent his men scurrying upward before early monsoons. They made a base camp at 24,000 ft. and rested for their predawn assault. Near the summit the air was dead calm, and the climbers hacked steps that took them up the final 2,658 ft. in a scant six hours. On the sun-drenched summit they stayed long enough to take pictures and offer Buddhist prayers. Two days later, a second team climbed the peak...
Traffic Tie-Up. Next stop for Storz was Kansas City. He snapped up WHB for $400,000 in 1954, in six months pushed the station's audience rating from fourth to first place, made giveaways the city's No. 1 all-weather sport; e.g., one Sunday last October a $2,000 WHB cross-town treasure hunt caused such confusion that Police Chief Bernard C. Brannon said the pastime should be banned. WHB is now Storz's biggest moneymaker, grosses $2,000,000 a year...
...schools. India has almost as many unemployed as the U.S. has jobholders (68 million)-and the number of job seekers rises by 2,000,000 every year. Yet in its first Five-Year Plan India managed to boost food output by 18%, to make itself (given good weather) largely self-sufficient for food. Across the Himalayas, where a rival drama of planned advance is being enacted, the totalitarian techniques of Chinese Communism can claim no such gains on the land...
...adversely affected by the tight money. One of Michigan's biggest dealers estimated that three out of every five loan applications were being turned down, but good credit risks had little trouble. Most dealers blamed last year's mammoth production and this year's poor weather for the sales slump. Said San Francisco's Ellis Brooks, a big Chevrolet dealer: "Everybody cries a little bit, even with a loaf of bread under...
...luck had dogged Beatty's blue-and-orange, 15-car show train from the time it rolled out of winter quarters at Deming, N. Mex. in March. Fighting bad weather and meager crowds, the once-prosperous circus had topped its $5,000 daily break-even point on only six of 43 days it had been on the road. The showdown came when the American Guild of Variety Artists pulled 55 members off the job until Beatty came through with $15,000 in back pay. Instead, black-haired, claw-scarred Beatty, 52, most famed of U.S. animal trainers, filed...