Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dryly, he conceded that Communist gains in France's municipal elections (TIME, March 23) stemmed in part from discontent with his austerity program. The press ("Excuse me. Messieurs les journalistes") had not accented the positive about austerity: the franc had been devalued by 17%, yet prices had since risen only 4%. "Now," said De Gaulle proudly, "we can meet any form of public expenditure without inflation. It is 20 years since that has happened. The value of our currency is uncontested in the world. A Frenchman of 40 has never before seen that...
...imported cars, whose chief selling point is even lower cost and greater economy than the Rambler. This year the 60-odd foreign cars coming into the U.S. are expected to account for 560,000 units, or more than 10% of the U.S. market. But Rambler's sales have risen faster than any of the imports...
FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE is expected because "bad order ratio" (number of cars out of service because of a need for repairs), has risen above safe level of 5% to 8.6% national average. In some areas, such as the Allegheny region (which includes the Pennsylvania and B. & O. roads), the average...
Contrasting the consistent decline of Freshman withdrawals in recent years is the marked increase in total resignations from the college. According to former Dean Leighton, the number of drop-outs from all four classes has risen from 2.7 percent to 4.5 percent since...
...years, farming has changed more radically than in the previous two centuries. Once farmers used to dole out fertilizer thinking only of how much it cost them. Now they pour it on by the carload, confident of getting back bigger profits at harvest time. Farm use of fertilizer has risen in 20 years from 1,500,000 tons to 6,200,000 tons. To handle the huge increase in crops, farmers have had to mechanize almost every farm job. From 1938 to 1958, farmers more than trebled their ownership of tractors, to 4,700,000 (an average1½ per commercial...