Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial resources for fulfillment of the plans." Out of the chief planning job went chill-eyed First Deputy Premier Maxim Saburov, apparently only shunted aside, unlike his predecessor Voznesensky, who was executed in 1949. The new planner is scholarly looking First Deputy Premier Mikhail Pervukhin, 52, who has risen high as an industrial manager (the approved biographies, which always make top Reds humble sons of the proletariat, list him as a blacksmith's son, which...
Profits were also nipped by the squeeze between rising wages and a slower rise in productivity. The nation's output per man-hour has risen an average of 3% every year since World War II; in 1956 it increased only an estimated 1.7%. One trouble was strikes, which cost the U.S. 37 million man-days, the most since 1952. But mainly, the U.S. economy was simply outgrowing its labor force. Despite 900,000 new additions in 1956, industry was scraping the bottom of the labor barrel, was often forced to employ marginal-and yet highly paid-workers...
...policy is aimed against inflation, how does Martin explain the fact that the cost of living is at an all-time high? "We have never said our policy has been 100% effective and we never will . . . But the real test is how much higher those prices would have risen if the law of supply and demand in the market place had not been permitted to operate to dampen somewhat the rate of spending and proceed to move in the direction of increased savings...
Using the Nalline test, Inspector Brau-moeller and Dr. Terry have achieved some spectacular results. Addict convictions in Oakland, they report, have risen from 29 in 1955 to 150 in the last eight months, and crimes largely attributed to addicts have declined...
...rocky, wooded land is producing just about the same meagre wealth as it always has. The outlook seems now just about the same as it was in 1941, when some city folk bought "Dun's Law" for $1,100. They're not city folk, really, anymore, and prices have risen some, but all else seems just about the same...