Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal morning dress, the Diet of Japan will gather this week for an Extraordinary Session-perhaps the most momentous since the Extraordinary Diet that met in the month before Pearl Harbor. A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers. There, in lonely, myopic state, will perch the Emperor Hirohito. The honorable members, and the uniformed guards who see that representatives do not fall asleep, will bow their heads docilely as the Son of Heaven, flanked by Princes of the Blood, declares their meeting open...
Poggenburg's Rise. Ed Gardner was born Eddie Poggenburg over a butcher shop in Astoria, L.I., 39 years ago, the only child of Irish-German parents. His father was an ornamental plasterer and semi-pro baseball player. Eddie's first job was playing piano in a saloon. He quit school at 16 because his parents did not want him overeducated...
...subsidy argument is short & sweet. When there is plenty of money but a scarcity of goods, prices will go through the roof unless controls are applied. The controls must not cut down production or squeeze too many people out of business. But when selling prices are rigid, while costs rise, businessmen are squeezed hard. Then, argue the subsidizers, the only way to prevent price inflation, without interfering with production, is for the Government to pay the difference between cost (plus a reasonable profit) and selling price...
...anti-bank-holding-company laws; rumors ran up & down Spring Street (Los Angeles Wall Street) that A. P. had agreed with Henry Morgenthau not to take too much Citizens stock. At week's end, no one knew how many of Citizens' 1,685 stockholders would rise to A. P.'s bait-or whether his offer would be renewed when it expired this week...
...Atta got another lesson in Lieut. General George Kenney's head quarters in Port Moresby. The reporter was sitting on the floor talking to Kenney when MacArthur entered. Van Atta started to get to his feet, MacArthur told him to stay put. Politely, Van Atta still strove to rise. The General hollered "Sit down," and enforced the order with a whack on the shoulder that crumpled the cor respondent to the floor...