Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...installing the mechanism. Next year Inventor Sperry lured Tom Morgan away from the Navy to install other gyro-compasses for the new Sperry Co. Serious, hard-working Tom Morgan applied himself with such vigor that by 1922 he was vice president, had contributed immeasurably to Sperry's rise to dominance in the field of nautical and aeronautical instruments. In 1928 when the company was bought by North American Aviation, Inc. Tom Morgan became president of reorganized Sperry Gyroscope...
Reasons for the New York Reserve Bank's action were two-to forestall a rise in the current low open market money rates, and, more important, to persuade banks to borrow from the Federal Reserve rather than sell large holdings of Government bonds as they have been doing lately to meet increased demand for commercial loans. As a device to end bond selling the reduction of the discount rate was not immediately successful. Still under pressure, ''Governments" continued to slump as much as half a point...
...million fully-equipped troops, faced with the expense of a grandiose public-works scheme, shrewd conservative Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, Reich Minister of Economics, has long been doing sleight of hand with Germany's foreign trade. With gold in the Reichsbank dwindling toward zero, Germany, since the rise of raw-material prices in 1935, has had to export finished goods at uneconomical prices in order to get currency to buy abroad such raw materials-copper, tin, oil-as she cannot manufacture synthetically...
Gradually her strength was ebbing, and for nine years Babe had not been off her stiff old legs, because she realized that if she lay down, she would never rise again. Last week, ambling from her cage into the yard, Babe lifted her foot, tripped on the doorsill, fell to rise no more...
...Germany Thomas Mann traced the rise of a great bourgeois family in Buddenbrooks; in England conscientious John Galsworthy produced the more comprehensive but less artistic Forsyte Saga; and the works are representative of innumerable lesser realistic European novels...