Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rock, torn from the harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
...know, meine Volksgenossen"-there was the nasal Austrian accent-"I know, meine Volksgenossen, what this war is demanding of you. ... I, more than anybody else, know. ... I also know that German towns will again rise from the ruins . . . more beautiful than ever...
Half-Measures. The fact was that OPA was caught in a trap it had foolishly sprung on itself two years ago under political pressure. At that time it clamped a low ceiling on the wholesale and retail prices of beef, but left cattle prices free to rise. Packers were hushed with a subsidy. This compromise was what the politically potent cattle raisers wanted. They won their market freedom, against the warning of scores of economists that no control over the retail price of food could work unless there was complete control of all farmers and farm prices...
Parachutes and Stockings. Primemover behind this rise that carried the eleven-store Gimbel chain ahead of arch-rival R. H. Macy & Co. as well as Federated Department Stores and May Department Stores, is greying Bernard Feustman Gimbel, 59, robust, genial patriarch of the Gimbel clan. He had a hunch that the war would boom retail sales. So he turned his buyers loose with instructions to order all they could of consumer goods which would be among the first casualties...
...proposals, two from the U.S., two from Britain, acknowledged implicitly or explicitly a revolution in economic thinking that has been in progress since the depression: the belief that the state-and only the state-can create conditions in which productivity and the standard of living will continuously rise without severe periodic reversals...