Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Housewives were advised to soak potato peelings in water, use the resulting mess as soap. Discovery that cellulose, used in making explosives, can be produced from discarded potato tops was announced in Berlin last week, caused the price of potato tops, hitherto not marketed but thrown away, to rise in Germany...
...great that efficiency was Adolf Hitler last week revealed in his speech to the members of the Reichstag. "As I am now about to make known to you the number of our dead and wounded," he said, "I request that you rise from your seats. . . . According to the casualty list of up to the soth of September 1939, which will not change materially, the total losses for the Army, Navy and Air Force, including officers, are as follows: 10,572 killed; 30,322 wounded; 3,404 missing. Unfortunately, of those missing a certain number who fell into Polish hands will...
...impetuous, romantic rise from the little West Kansas town where he was raised, son of a crack Union Pacific railroad engineer, Walter Chrysler had done something more than pull himself up by his bootstraps. Like most other successful U. S. businessmen he had picked his subordinates with unerring eye. And while he was sick and out of the game, no Chrysler stockholder suffered...
What Thoreau really meant by his life was even less clear to succeeding generations, began to clarify at last under the triumph of industrialism, the rise of dictatorships. In the 1930s this "friend of woodchucks and enemy of the State emerges as the most read and most readable U. S. writer of his time...
...course will consist of series of illustrated lectures at which the members of the Quarter will speak, tracing the rise of the string quartet and of chamber music from Haydn up to the present time. The first lecture tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock will begin a series of twenty-four weakly lectures that will go on until January, when the quartet is planning to make a tour of the Pacific Coast, but will be resumed again in February...