Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characters are somewhat exaggerated, and the most interesting of them is Falco, "the boy with the ice cream face," portrayed by Tony Curtis. Falco wants to climb the "golden ladder," to arrive "way up high, where it's always balmy." "Nice to people where it pays to be nice," Falco is assigned by J.J. to break up Suzy's romance. Since he won't get space in J.J.'s column until he does, Falco resorts in turn to blackmailing one rival columnist and procuring a prostitute for another in order to have an item smearing Dallas printed in the papers...
...major indicators of U.S. economic health, manufacturers' inventories were the last to turn around. Last week the Commerce Department reported that manufacturers, cutting down their inventories since October 1957, have begun to build them up again. Their stocks climbed $300 million to $49.5 billion on a seasonally adjusted basis. The backlog of unfilled orders in January totaled $47.6 billion, a gain of $800 million over December. The turn came just about when Government economists expected; they expect that inventories will continue to climb at a moderate pace for the rest of the year...
...built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...
...winding roads. It was an environment that sang." The people sang with it. The streets of Kingston were thronged with piping vendors or politicians drumming up a vote in the lilting singsong of the islands. It was "a groovy time. I was a great night gazer. I used to climb up in a mango tree and lie back and eat mangoes and look through the leaves...
...intraday basis, then retreated to the 590s. The quick push-pull led the experts to talk about the possibility of a sharp selloff ahead, of "technical corrections," "testing lows," etc., etc. After that, it did indeed slip some 30 points. But it resumed its climb, with hardly a thought to the worriers...