Word: mounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden Anniversary Banquet of the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette observed his own golden anniversary as a newsman by saying: "In these 50 years we have seen what seemed a successful system grow slowly and mount steadily to a fair approximation of justice. Then out of God knows where came the change. . . . Where did the money come from? And where the devil has it gone? I am without rudder, anchor or compass. I don't know what is the matter...
...Steel. At the turn of the Century, he moved to Manhattan and married Alta Rockefeller whose fortune was estimated at $50,000,000. Active law practice held him not many years after that. In 1911 he bought 1,000 acres in the Berkshires near Williamstown, Mass., called the place Mount Hope, has spent much of his time there ever since. He became a world authority on potato growing, experimented with corn from South America, bees, poultry, finally and most importantly with cattle. Able to converse fluently in Latin, he made his three children learn to speak it, and visitors occasionally...
During the post-War inflation people used to talk a lot about the High Cost of Living. The HC of L was belabored in song and skit. Socialites protested the HCL by sporting overalls. As prices continued to mount, a nation-wide buyers' strike developed that was not broken until Wanamaker's department stores in Manhattan and Philadelphia suddenly slashed prices one morning in May, 1920-thus dating the beginning of the post-War depression...
Arthur H. Hall '38 suffered serious hip and arm injuries yesterday afternoon as the result of a plunge from the newly opened Mount Monadnock ski trail when, rounding a turn at breakneck speed, he lost control of his skis and swerved from the course...
Although final positions have not yet been figured out, four Harvard skiers finished near-the head of 100 Third Class championship racers in a slide over the Mount Gunstock trail at Laconia, New Hampshire, yesterday...