Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penicillin has become standard treatment for both syphilis and gonorrhea in the Army & Navy. In spite of a recent rise in venereal disease (mostly gonorrhea acquired in Europe), penicillin and other drugs have cut the time lost from venereal disease from 1,280 man-days per 1,000 men in 1940 to 200 at present. The average soldier with venereal disease now loses only a week from duty. One officer asked whether it would not be more economical to cut down prophylaxis and lectures, simply cure cases. The answer: no. ¶ The Army's Reconditioning Program (TIME...
...sharpest rise in attendance (60.2% over last year) has been in the southwest. There a riotous Randolph Field service team led by an ex-All America from Virginia, Lieut. Bill Dudley, has hammered Rice 59-to-0, Texas 42-to-6, Southern Methodist 41-to-0 and two service teams for an average of 45.6 points per game against 1.2 for the opposition. Last week Dudley & Co., with ex-high-school coach Lieut. Frank Tritico directing, swamped the North Texas Aggies...
...lost markets. But many also believe they have some advantages: 1) the world will be crying for all kinds of goods after the war; 2) such competitors as Germany and Japan will be knocked out; 3) the U.S. is hampered in its efforts to compete by a sharp rise in its cost of production; 4) most nations have plenty of sterling exchange with which to buy, and little dollar exchange; 5) Britain will never again, as in 1925, make the mistake of overvaluing the pound...
British exports are necessarily made with imported materials: every increase in ex ports leads automatically to some increase in her purchases. And because of the war-induced rise in raw material prices, im ports now cost more. This further complicates the British problem...
...American romantics like Walt Whit man have cried that democratic Americans "rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons." But the U.S., says Brogan, "was made by politicians" - types who readily indulged in romantic rhetoric but were basically "matter-of-fact men . . . with a clear head for bookkeeping." "To have created a free government . . . without making a sacrifice of adequate efficiency or of liberty is the American achievement...