Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pointing out that basic room rents now are substantially at the 1940-41 level, Durant claimed that the rent rise is necessary to meet 30 percent grater costs resulting from the "period of inflation...
...personality front, Harry Truman (Taurus) seemed in for a rise in prestige and a decline in health, Winston Churchill (Sagittarius) for a "permanent change of residence," the C.I.O.'s Phil Murray (Gemini) for "a churning year," Crooner Frank Sinatra (Sagittarius) for "increased power." Things were not going so well-astrology-wise-with Generalissimo Stalin (Sagittarius). The current opposition of Uranus to the Sun in Stalin's chart pointed inexorably toward the end of his trail, certainly...
...Early to Rise. Neither Marcus nor Cynthia is as interesting as their creator. Successively a stagehand and super in St. Louis theaters, then a semi-pro short-stop on Missouri baseball teams, Pastor Perkins went to Drake University, then to California's Berkeley Bible Seminary, became a minister...
...proposed that U.S. cotton exchanges boost margins on cotton futures $10 a bale for every cent a pound rise above 25?. (At the present price of 26? a pound, on the New York Exchange, this would increase margins 1½times.) Few knew whether this would hold down prices. But it raised the tempers of cotton patriots so high that they loudly threatened to liquidate OPA if it continued to tamper with the sacred right of cotton to rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work...
Willie to William. For Willie was not born a reformer. Kansas was a satrapy in the expanding empire of the Santa Fe Railroad, and coin from that corporation's treasure house financed individual political fortunes and augmented the general prosperity. Not until depression and the rise of Populism (whose grievances and politics were later to find expression in Roosevelt I's Square Deal and Roosevelt II's New Deal) did Willie begin to brood upon the other half at all. By then Willie had become William Allen White, owner and editor of the Emporia Gazette, which...