Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industries and not enough in others. By keeping controls on capital goods, e.g., weaving machines, it discouraged industry from turning out the machines to make badly needed goods. By not controlling cotton (the greedy congressional cotton bloc made that impossible), OPA had no choice but to see textile prices rise steadily as cotton soared. And as the Administration let wages go, not even Gulliver could hold down prices...
...collapse came. In five hysterical hours, 2,900,000 shares were traded as the averages plummeted 10.51 points, biggest one-day drop since 1937. In the next few weeks, the average dropped to 165.17, and some $14 billion in paper values were wiped out, though production was then rising. It continued to rise till coal strike No. 2 caused it to slump temporarily at year's end. But as the market stayed down, everyone finally knew that the longest bull market in U.S. history was dead. What killed...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). World premiere of Bernard Rogers' and Norman Corwin's The Warrior, with .Baritone Mack Harrell, Soprano Regina Resnik. Also, Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, with Soprano Rise Stevens, Soprano Nadine Connor, Baritone John Brownlee...
...product of progressive education and the Wagner Act, student strikes in the U.S. were on the rise last week. Some recent strikes and issues: in Rogersville, Tenn., for better teachers; in Lock Haven, Pa., against corporal punishment; in Chicago, because the boys wanted a football team and the girls wanted to wear slacks; in New York City, against Christmas homework; in Sapulpa, Okla., for a longer vacation. Sapulpa fathers formed a united front to break the strike, applied "woodshed tactics...
...decision to stand up to John L.Lewis seemed to have worked wonders for Harry Truman. Columnists and cartoonists noted a sudden rise in his political prestige. At their annual Gridiron Dinner, Washington newsmen softened their traditional digs at the President and chorused "Of thee we sing. Harry!" with real enthusiasm...