Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shrapnel hits our building and we duck for cover while great clouds of black smoke and red dust rise like thunderheads and slowly thin away...
...turned Moslem afterward, got the Arabian agency for Fords, and has supplied the King with counsel and motorcars ever since. St. John (rhymes with Injun) Philby, quietly unobtrusive amid the splendors of the palace and court at Riyadh, has had much to do with Ibn Saud's rise in the Arab world...
There were plenty of signs that food prices would continue to rise above the dike's top. Item: in Washington last week Senator John H. Bankhead, in a one-man exposition of a legislative bloc at work, blandly predicted to U.S. farmers that the Commodity Credit Corp. would continue for another year its open-purse support of agricultural prices...
Steel. To help offset the boost in wages granted in December to steel workers, steel producers were allowed to make another increase in their prices. Last week OPA approved a price rise of $1 a ton for pig iron. In theory, this $60-odd million markup was simply a bookkeeping transaction; most steel companies make their own pig iron, thus will bill themselves for the added cost. But in good bookkeeping practice, this big hike in the cost of steels' raw material must be translated into higher costs of the finished product...
...Yalta the Big Three agreed that militarist Germany must not rise again, and designed machinery to do the job. But there was little indication that Yalta faced the long term questions: Who will replace liquidated war criminals who have been Central Europe's rulers? Who will own and manage the economy of Europe? What idea will replace that of the Nazis...