Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese explained that the price rise could not be avoided. Fearing a domestic inflation, Japanese people were hoarding silk. Furthermore the 1938 cocoon crop was very small. Trans-Pacific shipping costs had risen since the War started. Total stocks of silk on hand in Japan were estimated to be very low. Besides which the Japanese, to conserve foreign exchange, were buying garments of native silk, instead of imported cotton or rayon made from imported wood pulp...
...Churchill said that Scapa Flow was being searched carefully, that any U-boat hiding on the bottom must rise or perish. He insisted that the anchorage's defenses were modern and believed impassable...
...nothing to say, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but their silence was eloquent. As frontline officers between 1914 and 1918, their experiences with the universal human activity gave rise to the two straightest and grimmest accounts of World War I produced in England, respectively Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Goodbye to All That. Last week Sassoon was in seclusion; Graves had volunteered again...
Although no definite trend is revealed by the honors figures, large increases in the number of honors candidates approved are revealed in several departments. The rise in the number of honors candidates is, however, lagging behind the increase in the number of Plan A tutorial students...
Clothiers have predicted that men's suits will be up $5 apiece by spring. If so, that rise will cost U. S. consumers about $280,000,000 in the next twelvemonth. All sections of the wool industry last week appeared to be shearing their percentage of this fine clip: raw wool skyrocketed some 60% for the benefit of wool growers; yarns were up 45% to 50%, sweetening the pot for the spinners; and when the U. S. Army went into the market for uniform fabrics, it found prices up about 30% over the bids it could have gotten Sept...