Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands, and at 63 he was nervous, underweight and developing an ulcer. When he realized what his trouble was, he went to work in a furniture factory. The satisfaction of making things did wonders. He has gained weight, stopped biting his nails, and has no ulcer trouble. He has risen to foreman...
When the Commerce Department reported last week that business inventories had risen $2.5 billion since last August-to a new record of $75 billion-some businessmen began to jitter. Are inventories too big? Is there danger of a break in prices that might bring on a recession...
...descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist's eye, the cities pulsate with prosperity. Next to the weathered greys, faded beiges and crumbling burnt oranges of past glories stand refurbished or new buildings glinting with fresh paint, new chrome and stucco. Cassino has risen from the bombers' rubble, a gleaming, modern town, with its famed monastery restored. In Eboli, where Christ stopped (in Carlo Levi's novel), six spanking new apartment houses were completed in the past few months...
Putnam notes that one reason for the increased emphasis on common stock investment has been the decline in return on bonds. While the return averaged five percent from 1886 to 1931, it dropped to four during the depression, and has risen to 4.5 in more recent years...
Though Negro home ownership has gone up dramatically, the most depressing feature of the Negro's existence is still his home. Negroes now own nearly a third of the places they live in, a two-thirds rise over 1940. (White home ownership has risen more slowly in the same period, is now 57%.) But nearly a third of all Negro homes are dilapidated, compared with less than 10% in the nation as a whole. More than 20% of all Negro homes are overcrowded, compared with 5^% in the nation as a whole...