Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since then the faculty has risen to 44 in number, while the number of projects at the school has also increased greatly. Greater emphasis has been put on systems of analysis and on the findings of fields such as Anthropology, Sociology, and Philosophy...
...individual weapons, the Army stepped up the fire power of its divisions and added more weapons and men. The result was that an infantry division, which cost $14.5 million to outfit in World War II, cost $74.3 million (pre-Korea). The cost of equipping an armored division has risen from $30 million to $200 million...
...other prices continued to edge up, Iowa's white-haired Democratic Senator Guy Gillette and his Agriculture subcommittee decided to investigate. It called leading U.S. packers and retailers to Washington last week to find out why the price of sirloin steak in July had risen from 88? a Ib. to $1.10, then dropped to 98?, then bounded up close to $1.10 again. During all this time, the price of beef on the hoof was virtually unchanged. The explanation, as everyone expected, was simple. The packers and retailers had jacked up prices when the Korean war touched off a burst...
Word of Caution. The delegate who has broadened his market the most was Dr. Charles Clinton Spaulding, 76, a longtime friend of Booker T. Washington. Born of ex-slaves, Spaulding had risen from a $10-a-month waiter's job to head the $28 million Negro-staffed North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. Said he: "We are making progress as businessmen. Three years ago very few Negroes could borrow money, even on Federal Housing Administration security. But now their reputation in that way has been changed. Our company and two others had a lot to do with [that...
...first time in history that consumer debt had crossed the $20 billion mark, more than double the figure of a decade ago ($9.1 billion). But the rise was not as fearsome as it looked. While the nation's per capita consumer debt had risen from $69 in 1940 to $135, up 95%, national income had risen from $616 per capita to $1,437 in the same period, a gain of 133%. But consumer credit would be one of the first things curbed under the new Defense Production bill...