Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandnephew of William Gladstone, son of a Cabinet Minister, he was born to the salons of British power. Tall, heavy-mustached, with a penchant for double-breasted waistcoats, he has a personal charm that smooths all paths for him. His business abilities were established beyond cavil by his spectacular rise in the metals industry, wherein he first became manager of the giant British Metal Corp. and then fathered a world tin cartel...
Money for Politics? The plan was prime political bait, thrown out by a Government whose election prospects have been steadily diminished by the rise of the socialist C.C.F. The socialists took their time about commenting. Tory Leader John Bracken damned the scheme outright ("All the earmarks of a political bribe"). Canada's trade-union leaders suspected a move to substitute a dole for higher wages. In low-wage, Catholic Quebec, where the Government hoped to make its biggest hit, there were complaints that the plan discouraged big families. Throughout Canada, the opposition press raised an almost unanimous hullabaloo...
Although this volume tells the climax of the story (Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dream of the seven fat and the seven lean kine, his rise to be "Lord over Egypt" and his reunion with his father, Jacob, and his errant brothers), it is so slow-paced and philosophical that it seems static, despite the rapid development of its action. For it lacks the intense excitement of the scenes in which Joseph was cast into the pit, then sold into slavery (Young Joseph), or the intensity of the amorous scenes with Potiphar's wife (Joseph...
...civilian Freshmen, the first group of the Class of 1948, will sign their names a few dozen times in Memorial Hall this morning to register for the Summer trimester. When 350 upperclassmen register on Monday, the civilian personnel of Harvard at war will be around 775, a rise over the 677 who were here during the spring term. Before the war, a total of 3500 men were studying at the College...
Best evidence of boom was the swarm of little buyers who jumped into the market last week. Till then, the slow rise of the market had been paced by the high-priced Blue Chips (TIME, June 12). These were still popular, but they were being rapidly shouldered out by cheap stocks. On the peak day all but one of the most active stocks sold for under...