Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policies are already established. Wages will be permitted to rise, but Bowles insists that the 18½ pattern set in steel will not be the pattern for all. So will some ceiling prices rise-but as little as possible. For the most part, the wage increases will be squeezed out of profits, which Chet Bowles believes are big enough to stand the pinch...
...Bowles can get Congress to accept this plan for another year, cost of living items like food, clothing and rents will rise only slightly...
...more obvious explanation of Spellman's rise in the Church is that he has qualities the Church wants in its leaders. The hierarchy is always eager to make the most of its personnel, and an industrious young cleric can be sure that a strain of humility will not handicap his rise in the Church Militant. His superiors will see that he learns the art of patience. When Rome first suggested to Cardinal O'Connell that Spellman join the Vatican Secretariat, the Cardinal, who did not always look kindly upon the rising young cleric, kept Spellman in suspense...
What might have caused alarm was the speed with which the average price of farm land had risen. By November 1945, land prices were 58% higher than in 1939. (During the comparable World War I period, the rise was only 36%.) If prices follow the pattern of the last boom, the steep climb is just starting...
...bloc has legislated the U.S. into paying a subsidy of 4? a pound on all cotton sold in world markets, previously enough to allow the U.S. cotton to compete. (Shipping costs make the Brazil-U.S. price difference less than actual prices indicate.) But last week's sharp rise in cotton prices raised a new problem: now the subsidy will have to be increased or the U.S. will not be able to compete any better than before...