Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trail of the dreamers and dead men that two young Hawaiians, Benjamin Ferreira, 27. and Stanley Fernandez, 22, arrived in Arizona last April with 300 Ibs. of prospecting gear, food and, inevitably, a map. For $25 apiece, a guide packed them to within a ridge's climb of Weaver's Needle, helped them set up camp, and left. For days Ferreira and Fernandez searched for Lost Dutchman's gold. Once they pounced on a gleaming seam-but it turned out to be pyrite-fool's gold. Fernandez began to tire of the hunt, took to spending...
Lady, meanwhile, climbed up the bestseller list and-with the Postmaster General's own review in its scrapbook-would climb higher. Some 70,000 copies were in print at week's end, and Grove was moving them by every means except dog team. The outlook: more publicity, more sales this week, when the publisher seeks an injunction against the postmaster of New York. As for Postmaster General Summerfield, he is now free to return to his more customary reading matter, mostly books and magazines about hunting, fishing, motorboating. He is currently on Zanza buku, the account of safaris...
...penny-pinching president of Brown & Bigelow, in prison for income tax evasion. After both were freed, Bigelow offered Ward a job. helped him rise through the ranks of Brown & Bigelow. Ward took over the company in 1933, saw sales of the firm's advertising specialty items (notably calendars) climb to $50 million in 1958. Convinced that rehabilitation must take place outside prison, outgoing, kindly Charlie Ward hired some 200 ex-convicts at Brown & Bigelow, wrote and sent cash to thousands of others...
Main attraction is the array of plants, set on benches of graduated heights so that children or adults, in wheelchairs or standing, can work at them. There the children will grow bougainvillaea to climb a trellis. They will use other trellises for grapes, tomatoes, peas and sweet peas. Children learning to use artificial hands have already set out young plants that can take rough handling...
...equal to the prerecession level. The boost reflected heavier demands for bank loans by both business and consumers, also brought loan rates into line with yields on bonds. Most bankers now expect that the Federal Reserve will raise the discount rate from its current 3%. As interest rates climb, they will drive down farther a market already at a historic...