Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than the prickly heat was worrying Pandit Nehru. He was vexed about Goa, because the "inevitable historical process" of taking over this Portuguese colonial remnant had gone awry; the Goans had not risen up, as expected, to demand liberation, and Nehru had been made to look foolish. Nehru was also annoyed by his Minister of Labor who resigned from the Cabinet because Nehru had arbitrarily overruled the Labor Tribunal. But above all, Nehru showed telltale signs of jealousy. For one thing, Attlee & Co. Ltd. (of Great Britain) had poached on his position as No. 1 interpreter to the world...
According to the Congress' experts, the world's rate of annual population increase has risen in the last five years from 25 million a year to more than 36 million...
...completely modernized. One-fourth of Ford's $1.5 billion postwar profits have been paid out in dividends. For one single year (1950) the Ford Foundation received a dividend check of $86.6 million, or $28 a share. At the end of 1953, net worth of the company had risen to an all-time high of some $1.4 billion, and profits last year were $175 million. For the first half of 1954 the Ford car was in first place in sales-1.1% ahead of Chewy...
...Paris Stock Exchange six months ago, shares in Esso Standard of France were selling for $27. Last week the same shares had risen to $160. Reason for the sixfold increase: Esso France had struck a rich oil field southwest of Bordeaux. It was the first major oil discovery in French history, and crude production from Esso France's first two producing wells is already up to 5,400 bbls. a day, v. 7,000 bbls. from all other wells in France...
...almost too true to a banal type to be good. Bogart, however, being as much a symbol as the Hepburn is-and a cunning scene-stealer besides-holds his own with ease, and sometimes even sets little Audrey down, toreador pants and all, as a Vogue model who has risen above her station...