Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen too much of war: his country and his Red Army exist today only because they proved the power of defense on the long Russian line. If his young protege, Marshal Vasilevsky, had been blind enough to make that mistake, he could never have achieved the most rapid rise in the Red Army's recent history...
...looked as if the Prime Minister, with an eye on the regular elections in November, was making the biggest claim in Commonwealth political history: that Labor had saved the country. The Opposition's leader, Arthur W. ("Artie the Artful") Fadden, presumably thought that Curtin's popularity would rise as Allied prospects in the Pacific improved. Besides, the politicians wanted a showdown over controversial labor, social security and food policies...
...many small ones) have been taking progressively higher reserves for conversion to peace. One index of how such reserves can cut down actual net income (in terms of return to the stockholder): the National City Bank's estimate of first quarter earnings for 260 industrial companies showed a rise of only 7% over the same period last year, despite an increase in sales of some 33%. (According to their figures, the U.S. Government took 70% of net before taxes v. 67% last year...
With these limiting factors firmly in mind, most U.S. businessmen felt that the truest part of the Commerce Department's study was its estimate for the full year 1942: despite a 35% rise in income before taxes, U.S. corporations squeezed out less than a 1% increase over 1941 after paying their debt to the Federal Government...
...continent and the period between two world wars (he is now with OWI, soon returns to New York City's PM). Working on many papers and on many big stories, he has seen the news paper profession change gradually under the impact of powerful influences: the Depression, the rise of the American Newspaper Guild, the invasion of city rooms by women, the development of news magazines, the counterpull of radio, the expansion of government information agencies. The change he believes most important is the shift in emphasis from factual, objective news reporting to a standard of mixing opinion with...