Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condemning Soviet Russia in the Assembly, although unanimous notes are not necessarily there, President Carl J. Hambro, also Speaker of Norway's Storting (Parliament), tried an old parliamentary trick. He simply acked all those in favor of the resolution to remain seated. No delegate was brave enough to rise and declare he was for the Soviet Union. In the Council, the League executive organ, where one negative vote means defeat of a measure, those voting for Russia's ouster were France, Great Britain, Bolivia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, the Union of South Africa and Egypt. Significantly, those abstaining...
...further drastic price rise is likely to be dampened by the 230,000,000 bushels carried over from the last crop year (of which approximately 175,000,000 bushels are in hock to the U. S. Government), but the chances of wheat staying around $1 were helped by news from Argentina that the wheat crop there was also in bad shape. Reason: late spring frosts. November in the Argentine is the equivalent of May in the U. S. Argentina's expected harvest is around 160,000,000 bushels, less than half of last year's crop...
...August, zinc sold at 4¾? a Ib. With war, its price rose to 6½? - a rise of 47% which precipitated no end of buying and production for inventory. Then sales began to dry up. Fortnight ago, American Smelting and Refining Co. dropped the price ½? ($10 a ton). Trade pundits guessed that the steel industry-one of the largest consumers of nonferrous metal-would let down production even further after January, and American Metal Market headlined: "The outlook for Metal Prices none too solid...
...separately.) In early 1939 the trend of turnover in trade centres followed a course roughly parallel to that of industrial production as measured by the Federal Reserve Board. Trade centre turnover fell 9% from the first of the year to the end of April and then began gradually to rise. The Federal Reserve Board index fell 11.5% from its 104 high in December to 92 in May. This was the sagging period of the spring when business had failed to measure up to expectations...
Complaints. Railroad men have many a complaint against the economic conspiracy which has ruined their business. One big complaint is against the tremendous rise in taxes and wages which they have to pay. In 1916 taxes took 4.4% of gross operating revenues. By 1938 the tax percentage had gone up to 9.5%, $340,781,954. Wages took 28.3% of gross revenues in 1916. But in 1938 employes got close to 50% of the roads' $3,565,000,000 gross...