Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigoted foe of intellectual freedom. As at the time of the passing of the teachers' oath bill, it has again raised the dreaded cry "Moscow!" while tightening its grip over Boston's school system. The people of Massachusetts must distinguish between arbitrary and legitimate restriction of rights, and should rise to defeat this attempted subversion of their liberties...
TIME'S Index of Business Conditions, reversing the temporary downtrend shown throughout January, rose 1.6 points last week-from 97.6 to 99.2. Chief cause of the rise was an increase in public spending everywhere except in the ten biggest cities. Business loans continued to decline, reflecting industry's indisposition to go in debt for inventories...
...cash asset to some customer. Bank loans, in turn, are a large part of customers' short term liabilities. "Bank debits," checks drawn to all accounts, represent "gross sales" and thus reflect public spending. The trend of inventories bought with borrowed money may also be followed in the rise or fall of bank loans...
...reached their last dizzy peak. The TIMEline did indeed give the "first evidence" in that year of high and misguided hopes-but speculators, who might well have gotten out of the market after the TIMEline's sharp drop in April, would have missed the 30 to 40 point rise that took place subsequently. Chart readers would have noted that the TIMEline in September 1929, before the market crash, broke through its previous bottom (made in August...
...very start of 1937, after nearly five years' upward trend marked by rising sales and improved working capital position, the TIMEline began a new decline. Stock prices and production, however, held up unsteadily for several months. Then, in late March 1938, TIME'S Index once more began an uptrend. The excessive inventories that had exaggerated Depression II were nearly liquidated, U. S. business's working capital position was beginning to show improvement, sales were rising. By June, conditions were such that stock prices began a sharp rise. Production followed suit...