Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booklet also shows that since 1885 the College has been accommodating an ever smaller percentage of the country's college students. This has occurred because both the college-age population and the percentage of it attending college has risen at a much faster rate than the College's enrollment...
...farmer really the forgotten man of the boom? Actually, he is doing better than figures of the past few years indicate. Since 1939, farmers' incomes have risen more sharply than nonfarmers' (276% against 189%). The purchasing power of individual farmers has also been disproportionately higher; it is up 70% since 1939, compared with a 50% hike for non-farmers. Moreover, the trend from farm to city cut the number of farmers by 3.5% last year. Thus, per capita farm income last year rose slightly (from $914 in '53 to $918). At the same time per capita nonfarm...
Claverly Hall, once a Mount Auburn St. Siberia, has risen to new popularity this year. A large percentage of the students now living there will remain next fall, a spot poll indicated yesterday...
...Perennial Fallacy. Nowhere is the fallacy of unemployment from automation more evident than in offices. There, automation has made its greatest strides, helped along by dozens of whirring, clicking machines. Yet the number of office workers has actually risen from 5,100,000 to 8,100,000 in the last ten years. Only the new machines have made it possible for U.S. businessmen to keep up with the increasing flood of paper work. There are automatic time clocks, electric typewriters, card punchers, sorters, analyzers, tabulating machines and accounting machines. They do everything from keeping records to servicing bank accounts...
...White Motor Co. : William J. Hobbs, onetime Coca-Cola president). One was topflight Advertising Woman Bernice Fitz-Gibbon of New York, the famed sloganeer who originated Macy's "It's smart to be thrifty," and "Nobody, but nobody undersells Gimbels." The other: E. W. Endter, risen-from-the-ranks president of California Oil East Coast subsidiary of Standard Oil of California. Endter told reporters that he had resigned when forced to choose between his $50,000-a-year job and his pledge to Wolfson to join his slate. Said Endter: "Everyone said I must be crazy. I left...