Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MORTGAGE MONEY is expected to become more plentiful early next year, although interest rates, which have risen ¼% to ½% since September, are not likely to go down. Supply of lendable funds is up because U.S. savings are on the rise...
...China's present masters like to pretend. Mao inherited from the Japanese a major coal and steel complex in Manchuria and from the Nationalists considerable light industry as well as the Yumen oilfield-still China's biggest. Under Nationalist rule China's industrial production had risen 80% between 1933 and 1945. By the time Mao appeared, the stage was set for a Chinese industrial revolution comparable to that experienced by Japan in the 1880s or Germany under Bismarck. All that was missing was peace and a strong, central government...
...teaching pleasures as a nine-month schedule, the sabbatical year. Other advantages now prevalent (at little or no cost): housing, medical and life insurance, pensions, mutual-fund stocks, education for faculty children. Average starting pay is still small (about $5,500 last year), but, since 1954, faculty salaries have risen about 7% a year...
Since integration, one real problem of Washington schools has been the ancient one of low-income U.S. Negroes. The total school population has risen to 73% Negro, up 13% since 1954. This may refleet a white flight to the suburbs. The problems still remain-to be confronted for the first time by Washington's white teachers. Poverty among the families of Negroes at Jefferson Junior High is so severe that Principal Hugh Smith is sometimes asked to help them raise rent money. His unwed-mother problem is "tremendous." Says he: "There are years of work ahead...
Negro parents have finally overcome shyness, become active in the P.T.A. and risen to offices in several mixed chapters. On their merit, Negro teachers have continued to rise in the school system; there are Negro assistant superintendents in charge of elementary schools, pupil appraisal, adult and vocational education. To Washingtonians and outsiders who remain pessimistic. School Superintendent Hansen says: "Some of us think our greatest contribution to the problem is to go about our business-the education of children in our city-and let the results speak for themselves...