Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fall & Rise. By 1930 the Bank of Italy caught up with its prestige and size: it became the Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n. A.P. retired again. But soon he disagreed with the way his interests were being run, and rode back into power on a wave of proxies...
Plainly, the world was hungering for entertainment. Last week the Department of Commerce had figures to prove it: in 116 countries around the planet, the last two years had seen a sharp overall rise in movie theaters, from 78,974 to 90,097. Seating capacity had soared from...
...pitching area is about nine feet long--three and a half feet of fairly level payment followed by a gradual rise for five and a half feet, at the end of which is a foot-high ledge. Pennies can be ricocheted off this ledge or rolled up to it in any manner. "Leaners" are particularly desirable, although there is always the chance that they'll be caromed away from the ledge by somebody else's toss...
...measured in relation to the total volume of trading. In this ratio there were two previous peaks-in 1938 and 1948-as high as last week's. The 1938 bearish peak came just before the market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that the new bearish peak merely means that "Johnny Come Lately is on the bear side [and] it has not paid big dividends to follow him in the past...
...stern sense of conscience. In Paris, after a conversation with an English friend who jested broadly of the charms of the grisettes, he noted in his diary: "When I balance the attractions of good and evil, when I consider what facilities, what talents a little vice would furnish, then rise before me not these laughters, but the dear and comely forms of honour and genius and piety in my distant home, and they touch me with chaste palms moist and cold, and say to me, You are ours...