Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life expectancy of the male Negro has gone up from 47 years in 1920 to 59 years. In the same period, the white's life expectancy has risen more slowly, from 56 to 66 years. With improving living standards, the gap between the white man's and the Negro's life span is closing...
Bishop Bowers will return this summer to his Accra diocese (pop. 1,311,000), where the number of Catholics has risen in the last 14 years from 12,333 to 33,800. But before he goes back to Africa he will visit Bay St. Louis again, to ordain two Negro priests. That will be another first for St. Augustine's Seminary: the first time in the church's U.S. history that Negro seminarians have ever been ordained by a Negro bishop...
...make some upward adjustments soon. At a Miami convention of steel distributors, U.S. Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless referred to the "sub-competitive price" of steel, and said: "There's no fat left on our financial bones . . . Since 1940, U.S. Steel's employment costs have risen 155%. The cost of the goods and services we bought has increased by 138%. But the price of steel has gone up only...
Auto-insurance rates, which have risen sharply since World War II, appear to be on the way down. Rates have soared because 1) courts have been handing out sky-high judgments in accident cases (TIME, Aug. 27, 1951 et seg.) and, 2) the accident rate itself, notably among young drivers, has gone up alarmingly (28% of all drivers involved in fatal auto accidents in 1951 were under 25). But as the rates went up, independent auto-insurance firms began cutting their rates and snatching business from the large companies. Last week a number of big companies got ready to meet...
Narrowing Aid. Unemployment has risen to an estimated 40,000. Capital-improvements expenditures, the seed corn of Israel's future, dropped 8% last year, as the government desperately diverted foreign aid from long-term investments to stopgap purchases of wheat and fish...