Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Size, however, has its problems as well as its rewards. From a political standpoint, G.M. offers a tempting target. In the last two years under Curtice, while G.M.'s share of the auto market has risen from 41.7% to 49.9% (and Ford's has gone from 22.8% to 30.8%), Chrysler's share has plummeted from 21.3% to 13.5%. The former independents, which in 1952 accounted for 13.2% of auto sales, have dropped this year to 5.8%. Studebaker and Packard, Kaiser and Willys, and Nash and Hudson have had to team up to stay in business...
Except for a few (e.g. The Monongahela, Everglades), the books have seldom risen above the level of scrappy regional history. When New Mexican Novelist Paul Horgan began to do his book on the Rio Grande, it was meant to be one of the series. But in the end, the publishers decided not to include his book, for it towers above the others as a Prescott towers above cracker-barrel chroniclers. Great River is not only a fine job of historical research. It fuses the imagination of a good novelist (The Fault of Angels) with a remarkable sense of a region...
...eight years the Princeton budge has risen seven and one-half million dollars; in 1946 the school's budge was five an done-half million. Almost 75 percent of the present budget is devoted to teaching and research expenses. The remaining 25 percent is split between upkeep, athletic expenses, and scholarship funds...
Most library wages also have risen from $.75 to $.85. Several of the University's smaller libraries, however, have not yet changed their rates. According to Miss Gladys M. Fales, supervisor of the Employment Office, libraries will begin this year a new policy of hiring college students whenever possible instead of giving so many jobs to local high school students...
...observance.'' In neighboring
Boston. RKO Pictures Corp. distributors fought a similar blue law ban
on Sunday showings of The French Line.