Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biology D again heads the sciences with 376 attending the lectures. In sharp contrast with the more popular of the liberal arts courses, the enrollment has shown a rise of less than 70 or approximately 20 percent. Social science leader Economics A, on the other hand, showed a better than 100 percent expansion, and Government 1a, a 93 percent addition...
Industrial leaders have barraged Washington with the claim that prices must rise to stimulate a "flood of production." This is a mere smokescreen of words thrown out by the highly-geared propaganda agency of the National Association of Manufacturers. Higher prices will not cure the labor and material shortages that set the limits of production today. Only reconversion time and labor-management peace can bring greater production. It was not the OPA, nor is it the Wagner Act, which is in need of revision. The revision of statutes most necessary now are revisions based on the recognition that millions...
Since becoming Master of Balliol College, Oxford University, in 1924, Lord Lindsay has been active in turning the interest of young British scholars from the problems of the Empire to social problems, a contributing factor to the rise of the Labor Party to power, since Balliol, more than any other college in England, has been sending men to the top posts in the government from the time of the Victorian...
Meanwhile, thousands of old decrees and vise-tight police controls left Brazilian social and economic distress unrelieved. Rents continued to rise like the new skyscrapers. And still unsolved were the massive problems of feeding the people, stopping inflation...
...rise in civilian venereal disease which accompanies every war was held down, for the first time, in World...