Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Never-Sweats" (the Never-Sweats' catcher: a young fellow named Ben Fairless, now boss of U.S. Steel). Eventually, however, he got his M.A. at Wooster, later taught at Portland's Reed College. By the time M.I.T. hired him as its president in 1930, he had risen to be chairman of the physics department at Princeton...
...that Adenauer's policy was inflexible and unrealistic. Germany, he said, must return to its traditional Rapallo-Locarno policy of friendship with both East and West. Through the Treaties of Rapallo (allying Germany with Russia in 1922) and Locarno (allying her with the West in 1925), Germany had risen from the ashes of World War I. A new Rapallo-Locarno policy would again enable Germany to play the two power blocs off against each other, and reap rewards from both. Adenauer was "too dogmatic" and he was also too dependent on the U.S., which Herr Professor Brüning...
Even though circulation, ad revenue and total income last year were at an alltime high, costs have shot up still faster. Two biggest cost factors: 1) newsprint, which accounts for about 15% of the total costs for smaller papers and as much as 55% for big dailies, has risen from $50 a ton before World War II to $126 a ton this year; 2) labor costs, especially for mechanical workers, have gone up as much as 140% in the same period. The average daily, says Editor & Publisher, "has not gone through a year [since 1946] when expenses have not risen...
Some traders have attributed the market rise to the rearmament program, simply because the aircraft stocks have turned in the most sensational performance of all, rising 80% since September. But the fact is that overall. Standard & Poor's index of "war stocks" (e.g., shipbuilding) has risen 35% in that time, and peace stocks have almost kept...
Competitive Punch. In keeping with the times, penny uranium stocks have had a boom all their own (TIME, April 5). And on the Big Board such companies as Vanadium Corp. (up 83%) and Climax Molybdenum (up 44%) have risen as they have got into the uranium business. Other big gainers: oil and rubber (up 37%), insurance (up 40%), office equipment (up 43%). Of 35 major stock groups, only the tobaccos have declined since September, and their 16% drop can be traced directly to the lung-cancer scare...