Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxes. In the past two years A. T. & T. taxes have increased $43,100,000, or 46%. Warned Walter Gifford: "In the long run the Bell System looks to development and research to reduce the cost of furnishing telephone service. If, however, expenses, including wages and taxes, continue to rise, telephone rates must follow, unless the increase in expenses is so gradual and within such limits that improvements in the art can be made fast enough and productive enough to create offsetting economies...
This does not mean that Mr. Banfield has lost faith in his Iron Fireman. Sales of automatic stokers are on the rise. In 1933 one automatic stoker was sold for every six oil burners; last year the proportion was one to 2.2. But he has cogent reasons for surprising his dealers: 1) About a third of Iron Fireman dealers sell oil burners as well as stokers, and he would like them to have a complete line of Iron Fireman equipment; 2) The rest of his dealers want a crack at the new construction market, for most contractors still...
...perennially the best-selling books in the U. S. Below these three pieces of sacred and profane literature there are the new books that for convenience are called bestsellers. Each week the position of these ephemeral favorites are carefully checked. According to mysterious fluctuations in the public taste, books rise and fall in popularity: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People drops below Van Loon's The Arts one week, rises above it the next, then falls below Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living...
...labor costs rise too fast last spring? Many firms were in a position to raise wages in 1935 and 1936; it was questionable judgment to postpone wage increases until the last minute and then try to absorb them in one lump. During downswings people speak of cutting wages, but they seem to forget to raise them during recovery...
When he is sold to Potiphar his rise begins. His aptness wins him the regard of Potiphar's steward, the stocky, 50-year-old Mont-kaw, and saves him from labor in the fields. His clairvoyance and wit, when the great Potiphar himself speaks to him, start him on his way to becoming first Potiphar's reader and later his steward upon Mont-kaw's death. But most of Joseph in Egypt is given over to a study of the mad passion of Potiphar's wife for Joseph-a passion that, in Mann's account...