Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also benefited from the worldwide change in the terms of trade: since the end of the Korean war, the prices of food and raw materials (which Britain must buy abroad) on the whole have tended to fall, while the price of manufactures (which Britain has for sale) has risen correspondingly. But Britain also owes much to its Tory government, which accepted most of the welfare measures inherited from the Socialists, while reducing their freedom-clogging restrictions on business initiative. The payoff was last week's Board of Trade report: Britain's exports in 1954 hit an alltime high...
...with the solicitation of proxies of the New York Central Railroad Co. . . . It is anticipated that Alleghany Corp. will be reimbursed for them during 1955." Bob Young & Co. can well afford to pay the debt. Their Central stock, worth $25 million at the time of the fight, has since risen to a paper value of $37 million...
...governorship. The next logical step would involve a presidential campaign." ¶ The Fund for the Advancement of Education added its own gloomy estimate of the teacher shortage: "The annual output of elementary and high-school teachers has dropped 26% since 1950, while enrollments in elementary and high schools have risen 24% and 10% respectively." ¶ Appointment of the week: Claude L. Reeves, 61, to succeed Alexander Stoddard as permanent superintendent of schools in Los Angeles. Popular and grandfatherly, Reeves got his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Southern California, joined the L.A. school system in 1921, rose...
...fortnight, Host Ralph Edwards appealed to his audience to send a million dollars to Dr. Laurence Jones, founder of the Piney Woods Country Life School, Piney Woods, Miss. (TIME, Dec. 27). In the first four days, nearly $150,000 poured into Piney Woods. By this week the total had risen to $500,000, and letters were still arriving...
Jackson, the well-known pugilist." But when Hours was pooh-poohed by the Edinburgh Review, his lordship flew into an ungentlemanly frenzy, swore "to punish them for it." He did so, in the satirical poem English Bards and Scotch Reviewers -the first intimation to Britons that there had risen among them a satirist with a skinning knife sharper than any since Alexander Pope...