Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factors behind the current revolutions is the growth of nationalist spirit in the Far Eastern countries, Thomas pointed out. He feels that this nationalism which is at present aimed at ousting local and foreign oppressors, will give rise to the same sort of national enmities that at present divide Western Europe...
...areas would cost more-most importantly, wheat from North America. Since the British government could afford no added food subsidies, consumers would pay the difference. Within a fortnight the price of bread would go up from 4? pence to sixpence. Experts predicted that the British cost of living would rise 5% in a few months...
Cripps said that the sacrifices involved in devaluation would be wasted if production costs were allowed to rise. By this he meant that appeals for wage increases must be rejected. The alternative would be "unemployment . . . bankruptcy . . . fear and misery." Nevertheless, wage-freezing in the face of rising living costs was the bitterest part of his message for home consumption...
Twenty years ago a squib on the radio page of the old New York Evening World noted that "the story of a cloak-and-suit operator's climb from a dingy tenement to Park Avenue will be dramatized in the Rise of the Goldbergs . . ." With that feeble trumpet toot, the Goldberg family was off on a career that has included a run of 17 consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show...
Harvest of Stars (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBC). James Melton and Rise Stevens...