Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trend away from the Liberals is clearly toward the Tories. The strength of the minority CCF (socialist) and Social Credit Parties has remained fairly constant in the past six months, but the voters' preference for the Tories has risen from 26% in June to 32% today. Most encouraging from the Tory standpoint is the poll's evidence of a 22% increase in Tory popularity in Ontario and a 17% gain in Quebec, good signs that the party is making its greatest headway in the two big provinces where federal election campaigns are lost...
...gross national product has been pushed up 286%, from $101.4 billion to $391.5 billion. Such a massive increase in goods and services might seem to be enough to take care of the increased population, but a third factor makes a difference. Since 1940, personal income in the U.S. has risen a spectacular 293%, from $78.3 billion to $307.5 billion...
...Since 1940, total individual income of Americans has risen 263%; Florida individual income...
...brother Dave set themselves up as middlemen. Their specialty was to figure out how to cut costs on a 10 toy. Then they would land an order, farm out the manufacturing and pocket the profit. Before he was 21, Lou Marx had served a hitch in the Army, risen from private to sergeant, and, back in civilian clothes, realized his ambition of making $5,000 a year...
...ally accompanied by his golden retriever Rusty, he strides into his office at 8:30 each morning, is apt to be the last to head for home and family (three daughters) at night. His budget has gone up from $3,000,000 to $7,000,000; his endowment has risen 65% to more than $36,500,000. He has increased scholarship aid to reach nearly a third of the student body (in 1948 it reached only 18%), has started a national enrollment program to make sure that to a greater degree than ever before good students will represent the entire...