Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, Ibrahim Abdel Hady had risen far, from peasant beginnings to a palace in Cairo and the eminence of Premier of Egypt (1948). One of the nation's best lawyers and orators, a powerful politician, he was also irreproachably nationalist: he had once been jailed for life by the hated British...
...reason for this state of affairs is full employment. Even in 1946 and 1947, the uncertainties of civilian life kept much good officer and N.C.O. material in uniform. In the last few years, however, almost no civilian has wanted for some kind of employment. Wages in manufacturing industries have risen to 270% of 1940 wage scales. Military pay during the same period has had no such rapid increase...
...everyday level of practical politics, Europe last week was making faster progress towards it than it had in all of a year. EDC-the scheme to get the Germans into uniform on the side of the West within the straitjacket of a European Defense Community-had risen from its supposed deathbed. Büro Blank, the embryonic Defense Ministry of West Germany, casually let it be known that 105,000 volunteers are ready to don European Army uniforms; to prove that the Ruhr can arm them (a point that has been proved before), German industrialists staged an impressive display...
...will be happy. It makes them all. Now the nation's largest soapmaker, P. & G. manages to sell 119 bars, boxes, bottles and cans of its products every second of every day, every day of the year. Its share of the U.S. soap market has risen from 30% in 1925 to 40% in 1951. While Lever Bros., the No. 2 soapmaker, and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., No. 3, napped, P. & G. took 69% of the detergent market...
...Excluding patients with easily curable skin cancers, 17% of those admitted in 1935 survived the critical five-year period. By 1947, the five-year survival rate had risen steadily...