Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less than a month ago President Hoover warned Congress, meaning chiefly the Senate, to be economical (TIME. March 10). The Senate was resentful. The House sent the Senate a $48,000,000 deficiency appropriation bill. Last week, when the Senate had passed this bill, the outlay had risen to $171,000,000. But the Senate was not to blame for this apparent extravagance. Practically all increases had been made at the request of President Hoover: an extra $100,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board's wheat market operations, $3,000,000 for Porto Rican hurricane relief...
...Chicago, made infamous by his rackets, Capone's friends awaited his homecoming. He was still the acknowledged boss of his wide-flung interests. But business, lacking his expert guidance, had been poor during his absence. Beer deliveries had fallen off sharply. The price of protection had risen exorbitantly. Gambling had had to take to cover, while brothels were being harassed by an active police. Chief Detective John Stege had begun an inconvenient practice of giving "house parties" at headquarters for all known gangsters picked up on sight. Capone was ready to face these changes when he returned to Chicago...
...Mathematics is due to the fact that General Final Examinations were required of candidates in those subjects for the first time. It is probable that there will be a further increase in Bio-Chemical Sciences in the near future, for the number concentrating in that subject had risen from eighty-nine in June, 1928, to one hundred and thirty-six in June, 1929. At the close of the current year Geology and Physics will require General Final Examinations of all concentrating in those fields, leaving Chemistry and Astronomy (with Mathematics and Physics) as the only two fields in which such...
...risen so high, times became comparatively lean. He organized Kay Features, a syndicate which has not proven eminently successful. The rumor that he might help form and head a new chain of newspapers has not, to date, materialized. But, besides his medal, Newsman Koenigsberg can point pridefully to a journalistic career begun at the age of 13, when, as a result of winning a Chamber of Commerce essay prize, he began reporting on the San Antonio Times...
...Stone is chairman of the board of Stone & Webster, Inc., which began as a humble partnership between himself and a Harvard classmate (TIME, July 8). Their engineers have constructed central plants which today supply one-sixth of all U. S. citizens with power and light. Under them also have risen great factories, hotels, schools, Army camps. In addition to their buildings, Stone & Webster, Inc. own and operate public utility services throughout the lands. Among the companies which they manage, in which they have a potent interest are Virginia Electric & Power Co.; Puget Sound Power and Light; Eastern Texas Electric...