Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise in seven years from an obscure Tuberculosis & Health Association worker to the front rank of Federal officialdom is one of the major phenomena of the New Deal. It could not have been done by a character less elastic and resilient. He has not let his prodigious capacity for work stunt his private life. He likes par ties on Long Island, weekends at Sara toga, shirtsleeve poker with Jesse Jones & cronies. His little house in Georgetown, which he took to be near James Roosevelt, has been more of a sleeping place than a home to him since his second wife...
...press was common, and looking forward to a day when all newspapers would live up to the code of ethics observed by the best, Mr. Michelson mused: "But even in that better day, if it ever arrives, I darkly suspect that whenever the occasion offers, the press will rise in a body to shadowbox with a nonexistent peril and write about the freedom of the press as if a glowering giant were awaiting an opportunity to club it into helplessness...
...railroads from 2? to 2½? a mile. Having refused this grant three months ago, the Interstate Commerce Commission reversed itself in keeping with the Government's broad policy of being as lenient as possible with the hard-pressed roads. But the new fares mean only an estimated rise of $32,000,000 in yearly income for the roads involved, only a slight aid since the Eastern roads are losing about $13,000,000 a month...
...Started an investigation of freight rates for farm products. A favorite thesis of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace is that freight rates should rise in good times, fall in bad. Under the new AAA set up by Congress five months ago, he was authorized to create a division of transportation in the Department of Agriculture with power to plead before the ICC. Last week Secretary Wallace started the ball rolling by putting Dr. Ralph...
...spring of 1936, by last October reached a peak of $4,868,000,000. Then with Depression II they plopped to $3,916,000,000 for the week ended June 22. Last week, for the first time in 21 weeks, the Federal Reserve's tabulation showed a rise. The substantial $20,000,000 rally made economists wonder if the turn had come in credit as it apparently had in the stockmarket. That the volume of bank loans to commerce, industry and agriculture was expected to slump again this week was easily explained -U. S. Steel Corp. repaid...