Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...qualify for a bronze medal, even more for silver and gold awards. Since such proficiency cannot be obtained overnight, Arthur Murray has developed the lifetime membership, good for 1,000 hours of lessons, plus two hours monthly free for life. Originally priced around $7,000, life memberships have risen with inflation to $10,000, even higher in some cities. Some 4,100 have bought lifetime memberships. Many have bought up to four, for themselves or to donate to charitable institutions, spend almost all their free time taking Arthur Murray lessons, attending Arthur Murray Saturday-night parties, and even going...
...greyness. "Beech 72 Bravo ready to go," reported Pilot Barry Morris Goldwater, the junior Senator from Arizona, to Phoenix Tower. He turned to one of his passengers. "This is the time of year I like," he said with a grin. It was campaign time, and Barry Goldwater, who had risen that morning at 4 and skipped breakfast, faced the bitterest fight of his short, happy political life...
...week's end the toll had risen to 48 dead, some 50 injured. And the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission belatedly ordered ''dead man" devices-which automatically halt a train when the engineer relaxes control-installed on all passenger trains...
...year to 1,486,000 last May, slid still farther in August. Chemical-industry employment dipped from last year's 845,000 to last May's 817,000 to August's 812,800. In steel, the United Steel Workers reported that the number laid off has risen from 212,000 in February to 260,000 in August -though production rose from 54.6% of capacity...
...that these figures give no cause for alarm because in past recessions, re-employment always lagged behind general recovery. On the first signs of pickup, employers cautiously first lengthened the factory work week-as they are doing now. Furthermore, recessions have always cut the need for workers. Productivity has risen as management searched out new ways to cut costs and workers hustled harder to hold their jobs. Therefore, workers have been hired only after recovery was well under...