Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guard of honor before the door. In public squares all over Berlin, all over Germany, other crowds stood gaping at the trumpet horns of loudspeakers. Inside the Opera House the brown-shirted Reichstag had been called to order by paunchy Hermann Wilhelm Göring. It had risen, once to honor the memory of Bavarian Minister of Education Hans Schem, killed in an airplane accident, once to do the same for the late Marshal Pilsudski of Poland. It had welcomed the newly elected delegates from the Saar making their first appearance in the Reichstag since the War, and had thundered...
...Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices which partly compensated for the reduced tariff advantages; and Cuba, assured of an outlet for about 70% of its sugar at profitable prices, was rescued from total economic collapse. Meantime the price of sugar in the consumer's bowl has risen about...
Three weeks ago an idea dawned in the minds of the world's silver speculators. Last week it burst full upon them with the brightness of a newly risen sun. The New Deal-besides its large home schemes -has an even bigger scheme afoot: to make silver once more a world money metal. Beholding this sun, the silver world went wild and the New Deal had an international problem...
...years no less than $8,000,000,000 of Wartime loans, and retired, largely from its so-called "gold profit," another $674,000,000 of Panama Canal and Consol bonds; 2) saving in debt service will be $100,000,000 yearly; 3) though the national debt has risen to $28,800,000,000 in the last two years, present interest costs of $800,000,000 annually are actually less than in 1925 when the debt was $8,000,000,000 smaller...
...find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906. He had risen to a major-generalcy when he was retired...