Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration, pressured by angry labor leaders and threatened with mounting strike calls, is slowly, reluctantly allowing wages to rise.* This was the real meaning of, and the big news behind, the country's fourth coal strike...
...little to say for himself of late, nor has that little carried much punch.* Last week he issued a pallid message calling upon German youth to maintain an "unshakable belief in victory." In his last public speech, to party leaders early last month, he urged his people to rise above the shifting tide of battle, to cling to "the faith that tells us that this war will end in a mighty German victory if only our will remains unwavering." For the man who once delivered victories by the carload, to talk of "belief" or "faith" in victory must have been...
...Edwin A. Falk's Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power, the chapter which describes the British phase of his naval education is entitled: The Decks That Nelson Trod. Togo and his naval heirs might have been - but were not - molded by "the Nelson touch," as Admiral Nelson himself referred to his way of fighting. Essence of the Nelson touch was the order: "Close with the enemy." Allied naval officers still revere and in some cases (notably Cunningham of the Mediterranean and Halsey of the South Pacific) still have the Nelson touch: their one desire is to find...
Shades of Repeal. Last week's rise in American Distilling was so sharp that SEC began looking under desks for manipulators. Not since the wild Repeal days of 1933 had distilling shares been so popular; in fact, they were selling like bottles of whiskey. But probably SEC would find only that the market had belatedly recognized the wartime facts of distilling. All the whiskey shares were strong last week because-for the long term-whiskey stocks are scarce and the industry has finally given up hope that the Government will give it a "holiday" from producing industrial alcohol. Result...
...years, the Federal Reserve Board's index has been the authoritative barometer of U.S. industrial production. In peacetime, many a U.S. businessman eagerly scanned the index's monthly rise-or fall-shifted his financial position accordingly. Many a financial house bases its carefully computed private index on that of FRB. Last week, FRB admitted, with tremendous dignity, that for two years its index has been inaccurate...