Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since February 1933, the general U. S. price level has risen 32%, cost of living 24%, prices of farm products 118%, wholesale prices 45%, Moody's index of spot prices of basic commodities 140%, prices of copper 188%, lead 115%, eggs 73%, flour 69%. Listing these figures and many others in the December Atlantic Monthly, Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer commented: "That is inflation." Economist Kemmerer expects commodity prices to rise some 69% more and the cost of living to double. Nor is this a lone-wolf stand. Harvard's Professor Melvin Thomas Copeland made similar predictions last...
...soon as the midyear examinations are over, one of the last remaining vestiges of a political controversy in Harvard will once more start to function. This is the Freshman election. Just as the Union Committee has risen in the past few years to a position where it represents the Freshman class, so now the time has come to abolish the February elections which have become both meaningless and disrupting...
Since his body has not yet risen to the surface of the Charles River, metropolitan police have concluded that F. William Burgess, 2L, did not drawn there two weeks ago as had been previously thought...
...gave credence to the notion, Europeans of high & low station suddenly became convinced that the recent U. S. efforts to stimulate business would shortly be climaxed by further devaluation of the dollar in order to raise internal commodity prices just as Brazilian coffee has lately risen internally on a depreciated milreis...
...during the New Deal. It is now more profitable for concerns to refund old debts than to issue new securities. It is also more profitable to borrow for short-term than issue long-term securities, as is shown by the fact that bank loans for commercial purposes have risen steadily all year, though industry has been receding and new security issues have been virtually frozen. Until very recently this has been worrisome only to investment bankers forced to scratch for commissions. But the market crash has made the matter headline news by damming up some...