Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Answering the charge that the Republicans have discriminated in favor of big business, Stassen pointed to the facts that employment has risen from 61 to 66 million under Eisenhower and that the average factory wage of workers has increased...
...example, means that millions of families pay the banker instead of the landlord; when a family buys a car or a TV set, its cash outlay for public transportation or entertainment decreases. Moreover, while the U.S. citizen in 1956 owes more, he also owns more. Per-capita savings have risen to $1,300 from $330 in 1939. Consumers' assets (including $200 billion worth of stocks, equities in life insurance and pension funds, etc.) are worth $600 billion, more than four times the 1939 level. Unlike 1929, the U.S. investor owes proportionately little ($2 billion) on stocks...
...campaign of terrorism (TIME, Aug. 27), the troubled island of Cyprus began to sense a degree of peace. British Governor Sir John Harding conceded that the E.O.K.A. truce offer might well represent "a chance for a fresh start" on Cyprus. And it might have, had the British risen to the occasion...
...center of world oil production has shifted from the U.S., where wells are going dry. the cost of land is going up and the wages of workers have risen, to the Arab area where the wells are still virgin, where land over vast spaces continues to cost nothing, and where the worker continues to receive less than a subsistence wage. Half the proved reserves of oil in the world lie beneath Arab soil. Have I made clear how great the importance of this element of strength is? So we are strong−strong not in the loudness of our voices...
...stayed about even, while personal income has soared 19% (to $324 billion). The consumer price index in June stood at 116.2, 3 points higher than the June 1952 level. Thus, despite the inflationary pressure of a 20% increase in average weekly earnings since 1952, the cost of living has risen 7 points less than it climbed in the four years between 1948 and 1952, while the median average income ($2,323 in 1955) has gained 75% since...