Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government purchasing program to absorb high farm prices without letting retail ceilings rise on important cost-of-living items. For instance, this could be done if the Government bought up cattle at going market prices, resold to packers at a figure low enough to give the packers modest profits at current beef ceilings. In effect, the Government will buy up all cattle and sell them at a loss, with the taxpayer ponying up enough money to keep producers and processors in business...
...thought there would certainly be a serious egg shortage, come December. Next day, OWI struggled to issue a soothing explanation: 1) civilians will get only a third as many storage eggs (one million cases) as they got last year, but the loss will be offset by a 13% rise in egg production; 2) more people are eating eggs these days and boosting the demand; 3) "this is just the sort of situation that gives rise to black markets...
...unregulated and is carried on under conditions detrimental to [its] health, education and general welfare . . . hours of work are frequently so long as to make the term 'part-time employment' a misnomer . . . employment at night, particularly in unsuitable occupations, may be a factor in the current rise in juvenile delinquency [TIME, Dec. 14]. [Educators] complain that . . . many [employed children] fail to attend school regularly and those who do attend fall asleep . . . many ... become discouraged and drop out of school...
...years past. Most of the increase has occurred since last November. OWI, reporting this, said that things are not yet out of hand: despite the past year's overall jump of 9%, per-acre values are still just below the 1912-14 average. But the steepness of the rise is cause for alarm...
...substantial fraction of the present rise in farm values is due to city-slicker dollars in search of a hedge against inflation. "Chicago money" has poured into Illinois farm land in recent months; an Iowa farm broker last week reported that one eastern moneybags had just banked $400,000 in Des Moines and was looking for land to spend...