Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solidly booked that many late arrivals had to go 20 miles into the mountains to find a bed. Budget-minded travelers discovered a more economical sun-drenched paradise in Spain, where a room with bath in the best hotels can be had for less than $4. Though prices have risen, Spain is still a bargain, and expects 150,000 Americans this year...
West Germany's gross national product has risen phenomenally, from $21 billion in 1950 to an estimated $34 billion today. Profits are high, and many a businessman has made a postwar fortune. But while German output rose 50% in four years, wages have risen only 21%. German trade unions had been persuaded to accept thin pay packets as their contribution to the Fatherland's recovery, having been told that wages had to be kept low in order to regain the export markets. In addition, unemployment, fed by ten million refugees from Communism, made a man think twice before...
...like to turn peanuts into bananas." Last week, reaching out for a new piece of fruit, Top-Banana Zeckendorf bumped into another big operator. In the collision, Zeckendorf's feet went skidding out from under. Zeckendorf's opponent: Conrad Hilton, who in about a dozen years has risen from an obscure Southwestern innkeeper to a position as the world's biggest hotelman (TIME, Dec. 12, 1949 et seq.). The prize was the Statler hotel chain (eight hotels, two more abuilding in Dallas and Hartford, Conn.), which Hilton snapped away from Zeckendorf in history's biggest hotel...
...MacArthur, Remington Rand was indeed a good buy; since he picked up the stock last December, the price has risen about $6 to more than $21 a share, giving him a paper profit of about $5,000 on his $12,000 investment. Remington Rand is apparently just as pleased with the general as he is with the company. It has given him a raise-from $45,000 to $68,600 a year...
...Negro market is huge and profitable. In support of this Secretary Weeks quoted Census Bureau figures showing that the Negroes' total income has quadrupled since 1940. Their median income has shot up even faster. For non-whites (96% of whom are Negroes) the median annual income has risen almost four times, from $489 in 1939 to $1,943 in 1951, while the income of whites has increased less than three times, from $1,325 in 1939 to $3,673 in 1951. Overall, the Negro market is estimated at $15 billion a year...