Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME's account [April 4] of the execution of a small reddish-brown pig at San Quentin. Calif, was incorrect. The pig actually dropped unconscious, never to rise again, in twenty seconds and in all probability it was dead within a minute...
...Last week the following facts showed how stalled is U. S. steel, how inactive is U. S. industry: C. Steel scrap sold at $12.83 a ton on The Iron Age composite scale-lowest in two years. Price year ago: $21.92. Since new steel is nearly 50% melted scrap, any rise in steel production is usually presaged by a rise in scrap prices...
...weekly reports fully as baffling to the average citizen as a doctor's statistics on blood pressure. Last week the Federal Reserve Board reported an increase of $65,000,000 in the total of money in circulation ($6,394,000,000) whereas $24,000,000 is the regular rise for that time of the year...
...week to week for five months and since there was no sudden upsurge of business last week, most financial commentators at once concluded that this could mean but one thing, a resumption of hoarding. But Federal Reserve officials pooh-poohed the idea. According to them, one week's rise is insufficient evidence and may be only an accident. More likely explanation, said they, was the fact that sales last week were momentarily stimulated by the approach of Easter. For the week ending March 26 this year, which was the week before Easter last year, department store sales were...
Tonight there was no voice. But the flames, with their rhythmic rise and fall, seemed to be hearing one,--to be responding to every variation of its golden cadence. And the Vagabond, as he studied the rhythm of the flames, seemed to hear it with them, seemed to hear it crying, "We must take action to save the Constitution...