Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trainmen on Chicago's elevated lines, piqued because the company sent out retroactive pay rise checks to its white-collar workers before getting round to them, snarled traffic all afternoon with a work stoppage which was called as "proof our union will preserve its dignity...
...union needs a 30% pay rise to keep take-home pay for a 4O-hour peacetime week as high as it was in wartime...
...wartime expansion and technological improvements, the company could grant the 30% rise and still make a fair profit without raising its selling prices. (If the company could prove otherwise, said Reuther, he would gladly scale down his demands...
...With the rise of the oil industry, the number of whalers dropped. Yet the catch swelled enormously. Romance gave way to cold, scientific slaughter, chiefly to supply soap and oleomargarine makers. Whale ships became enormous floating factories, fed by small, 150-ft. killer ships firing harpoons tipped with explosive shells. (An electric harpoon, which paralyzes whales and keeps them from sounding, is now being tried out.) The whales were jerked aboard the factory ship through a hole in the stern, cut up and rendered into whale oil in a few gory, noisome hours...
...volumes of Men of Good Will, earth and heaven, ideals and reality, are tied together by the thoughts and struggles of a few major characters whose aim in life is to better the world. And in The Wind Is Rising, for the first time, the youthful idealism of Author Romains' men of good will is beginning to shiver in the cold draft of political affairs. As they enter middle age, they begin dimly to see bad omens. Chief among these omens is what Author Remains calls "the rise of gangs and the gang spirit...