Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poisonous gas through Badoglio against defenseless people . . . should certainly not be permitted to end his days in safe retirement. . . . Ethiopia is less interested in vengeance for the past than in justice for the future. . . . Much more important . . . [is] the building and maintaining of international institutions that will prevent the rise of political bullies trampling on the rights of small nations...
Third-Party Upswing. Biggest surprise was the C.C.F.'s phenomenal rise from nowhere to 34 members, only a dozen short of a majority. This ten-year-old, mildly socialist Federation, strong in western Canada, has become a militant new force in Canadian politics, threatening Mackenzie King's leadership. In Ontario the C.C.F. was led by young lawyer Edward B. Jolliffe, bespectacled Rhodes scholar, son of China missionary parents. He and his cohorts ran strong in labor ridings, among young people and with voters of the middle and lower income brackets...
Then the Professor told of his meteoric rise from Admiral through Commander to Lieutenant (jg); the hard jump from Ensign to C.P.O. and finally to the post he now holds, Seaman 14th Class...
...Donald Nelson's chart had two faults. The 2% overall rise concealed alarming declines in specific war industries; and the tough job of U.S. production is not to keep just ahead of previous output but to make substantial gains, stratosphere or no stratosphere, to meet the armed forces' increased demands as the decisive battles near. Optimist Nelson's chart would have served the anti-complacency drive better had it shown U.S. production inching up gradually against a background of swiftly rising military demands. At the halfway mark in 1943, 43% of the year's "currently scheduled...
Outside of the good overall earnings, there were few surprises and little to cheer about. Biggest surprise: a good many utilities, whose outlook for increased earnings was supposedly hopeless-their gross business is stable, their costs, on the rise-managed to squeak out a little more net income. Most notable were Wendell Willkie's ex-company. Commonwealth & Southern, with a six months' net of $7,331,000, its best showing in more than ten years; and New York's huge, over-bonded Consolidated Edison, whose $5,869,000 net for the second quarter was almost 25% above...