Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exports of consumer goods had increased in wartime by 60,000 tons, which in pesos meant a jump from 45,000,000 before the war to 233,000,000 pesos last year. Argentine home industries had expanded some 75% to supply not only home needs but to open new markets in neighbor countries which followed the United Nations course to war. From 67,000,000 pesos in the first six months of 1939, Argentina's exports to her neighbors skyrocketed to 234,000,000 in the first six months of this year...
...overindulgence in red meat, salt, drinking or smoking. About 40% of hypertensives seem to inherit a tendency to it; even babies sometimes have it. Dr. Page blames excitable nervous systems for a great many cases (evidenced by the fact that anger or fear makes blood pressure jump), and he suspects that another source of the disease is a chemical called angiotonin, released by the kidneys when their blood supply goes wrong...
...many another labor-parched coast area the solution calls for more than a WMC order. Within the next few months, the number of shortage areas on the West Coast is expected to jump rapidly. The total number of additional workers now needed by the expanding aircraft industry-100,000-is expected to increase to 250,000 early next year. To solve these problems, WMC has murmured of a National Service Act. But most planemakers dislike the idea of a labor draft...
...Italian mainland on a mission of photoreconnaissance. The air was clear and still, visibility unlimited. Looking out, the pilot could see the length & breadth of Sicily and, on the other side, the full expanse of the Italian toe. Between the two, the narrow straits looked "so small you could jump across them-a blue ditch...
...match (TIME, May 3), had become champion of the Royalists, Verdinelli, a gladiator of the Fascists. Faced with this explosive mixture, British officers, who had turned out in numbers to see the first fight, decided something had to be done. They ordered Manca and Verdinelli to put up their jump ropes, retire their sparring partners, the match had been canceled...