Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Butler has done more than restrict imports. He has fought inflation at home and cut consumer-spending by tighter restriction on credit, the reduction of food subsidies and other measures. These anti-consumption measures have worked. Tea (which was recently derationed) and other foods are now plentiful. Prices have risen enough so that buyers find themselves rationed by their own purses rather than government decree. Thus, Rab Butler has cut the amount of sterling needed for purchases abroad. He was also helped by the fall in world prices of commodities Britain buys, without a drop in the prices Britain gets...
History bears witness to the fact that progressives have always been criticized and damned by the forces of reaction and established interest. Yet during Governor Dever's two terms industrial production has steadily risen, industries and capital investments have increased by 11%, per capita income soared 20% and we have increased jobs by 119,000. Industry has benefited and labor has benefited...
Poetry's circulation has never risen much over 4,000, and the magazine has never paid its own way. The editors have been able to solve this problem by buttonholing well-to-do well-wishers. Nowadays the head of the fund-raising committee is Mrs. Ellen Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, herself an occasional contributor to Poetry. But over the years, editors have been confronted with another problem even graver: somewhere along the line, U.S. poetry ceased to fizz...
Allyn expanded his exports, spent heavily on research to develop new accounting and bookkeeping machines, including one that figures payrolls and writes checks while automatically allowing for withholding taxes, social security and other deductions. Result: National's sales have risen fivefold to $212 million in 1951, its net has jumped 470% to $11 million...
This varied composition is explained by assuming that the planet they came from was molten inside. The heavy metal in it had sunk toward the center. The lighter stony stuff had risen toward the surface. In between was a zone containing both metal and stone. So when the planet blew up, its fragments might be either metal or stone or a mixture of both...