Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honduras. In the roaring times when it was never clear which went first, the U.S. flag or the U.S. dollar, to old banana hands such winds would have signaled hurricane warnings. For politically minded United Fruit was deeply involved in Dictators Ubico's and Carías' rise to power. But wily Sam Zemurray, United's big boss, radar-keen in detecting a gale, had fore-handedly trimmed sail. Now a United Fruit executive in Central America can hardly take a drink in the presence of a Honduran political exile without cursing the Carías tyranny...
...wages, the new policy left employers right where they were-up in the air. Bowles said that each case will be considered on its merits. A different "pattern" of increases will be set for each industry. The general objective will be to let wages rise 33% above 1941. However, wage increases not approved by the National Wage Stabilization Board cannot be used as a basis for a price increase. Thus the red tape which now tangles wages, prices and production looked just as snarled as ever...
...trying to get a rise, he got one. N.R.D.G.A.'s President Benjamin H. Namm shouted right back. The Association, said he, "does not seek an end to price control." What the Association did want was to change the way price control worked, notably many of the things which Bowles himself now admitted needed changing...
While these results do not offer a solution to the problem, they will reduce the 1,200 unfilled student applications considerably. The Housing office reports, further, that the number of new applications is decreasing at present, although they expect it to rise sharply in June and September...
...lengths apart, and each tries to catch the shell ahead. Once the prow of the overtaking boat actually touches the other's stern, the overtaken boat loses one place. (The best place to bump is in a narrow part of the river called the Gut, which gives rise to such odd reports in English sporting pages as "Jesus Bumps St. John...