Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know quite well that when inflation of the kind and character embodied in the Frazier-Lemke Act is adopted, commodity prices rise but wages stand still. We cannot subscribe to this sort of eco-nomic philosophy. Labor would suffer reduction in living standards, reduced buying power, and the problem of unemployment would become more acute...
Before grey-lipped Neville Chamberlain took a little key from his watch chain and opened the battered red leather Budget box to announce to the House of Commons last month a rise in the tax on tea and another threepence to the pound of income tax, somebody must have peeked (TIME, May 4). In a last-minute rush British companies were swamped with orders for insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials...
...touchingly, he demonstrates that even merry wags are subject to the moral law, and the need for affection, to lay their lonesome ghosts. This hybrid of persiflage and metaphysics shares the program with a melodious dainty called 'Invitation to a Dance". The struggles of Carl Maria Von Weber to rise in the musical world are presented somewhat drably, but the song is an ample lure, special commendation going to the manner in which Weber's charmingly simple piano forte pieces are worked into the incidental music...
Clearly evident in March quarter motor figures was the trend toward medium and high-priced cars. Low-priced makes gained only 16% compared to a 41%, rise for all others. Though still holding more than 90% of the market, the Big Three (Ford, General Motors and Chrysler) had their slice of the market pared slightly, independents gaining more than the general average. Furthermore, Ford safes fell off 24% from the same period last year. Ford's slump nearly cost the Man of Dearborn second place in the industry, reducing his margin over Chrysler to a bare 6,400 units...
...crack. Cigar makers, wholesalers and dealers were gathered to ponder the plight of the U. S. cigar. As they all well knew, production had fallen from the all-time high of 8,304,000,000 cigars in 1920 to 4,344,700,000 in 1933. Even with the recent rise of the 5? cigar, production last year was only 4,763,900,000. The cigar men had gathered to hear Joseph Kolodny, onetime chairman of the NRA code authority for the wholesale tobacco trade, outline plans for saving the cigar. Apparently attached to New Deal terminology, Mr. Kolodny announced...