Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replied the Führer: "If formerly the behavior of the Czechoslovak Government was brutal, it can only be described during recent weeks and days as madness. ... In a few weeks the number of [Sudeten] refugees who have been driven out of [Czechoslovakia] has risen to 120,000. This situation as stated above is unbearable and will be terminated...
Statistical answers were preponderantly optimistic. Engineering construction awards of $49,229,000 were 16% over the same week in 1937. Carloadings, risen 2.3% from the previous week, were still off about 20% from last year. Store sales, off 12% fortnight ago, were only down 6% from 1937 last week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce declared: "All of the evidence points to some improvement in business. ... It is too early to know the strength present trends will develop. ..." The New York Times was less optimistic. Its business index fell and when commercial, industrial and agricultural loans by New York member banks...
...Thomas Hollis the Library's endowment has grown to about three million dollars. Most of this money is in the form of special bequests, and each year the University must make up a deficit of about $160,000 from its unrestricted funds. Expenditure for books has risen from...
...advocated increased coverage, Chairman Crowley said FDIC was willing to raise the ante if the additional risk were "very small." Previous estimates showed that about 95% of U. S. deposits were covered by the present limit. But a new estimate is in order, now that bank deposits have risen to a near-record peak of $47,500,000,000. In any case, said Leo Crowley, he meant no reflection upon bank strength-in the first half of 1938 only 38 banks failed, of which 33 were insured...
...issue, which remained what Franklin Roosevelt had made it: a specific judgment by Maryland on the past, present and future of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. In a memorably heavy vote, Maryland passed this judgment with relatively little disorder for a primary in which feelings had risen so high. Result: Millard E. Tydings unPurged by a ratio...