Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wage increase, lower than some competitors had been discussing, and well within the ability of his company and the industry to pay in the light of textiles' growing recovery from its long postwar slump (TIME, Dec. 8). Since the last pay raise in 1956, textile productivity has risen...
...spreading oak of a lad (204 lbs., 6 ft. ½ in.), Johansson has risen far since he began as a street paver in his native Goteborg. At 26 he swoops along the same streets in a white Thunderbird, bosses $250,000 worth of equipment in the earth-moving business that he runs on the side. The son of a manual laborer, Ingo became the pride of Sweden with a simple public weapon: a devastating right...
...normal'' inflation -and the alternative has too often been depression. The best long-range measure of inflation is the wholesale price index, which has been recorded conscientiously by the Government since 1890 and projected back as far as 1749. The index shows that prices have generally risen in times of prosperity or of war, fallen in times of depression. During the severe depression of the early 1890s U.S. prices hit their lowest level in history...
That increase in the quality of academic ability which the CEP report reflects and tried to channel is perhaps a cause of the increase in the number of "voluntary withdrawals" from the College. In the past two years these have risen from 75 to 145, a fact which Leighton sees as perhaps "a reflection of mounting emotional tensions...
...Forest Lawn. Every company in town has used the work of blacklisted people. We're just the first to confirm what everybody knows." Writer Trumbo himself has sold "many screenplays" under nine pseudonyms. Since 1947 Trumbo's income, slashed 90% in the first eight years, has actually risen above his pre-blacklist level...