Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news that the Government hasa general manager, and that he is generally rated exceptionally good at his job, is apt to provoke most citizens to some pretty indignant questions. What about the rise and fall of Washington czars and co ordinating agencies, the famed Washington confusion, the wearisome headaches, bottlenecks, bickerings, fumbles and bumbles? What has General Manager Smith been doing all this time? If he is any good, why hasn't he straightened out the mess? Pending investigation, John Citizen may be pardoned for concluding that Harold Smith is a hell of an efficiency expert...
...stupid Germans, these eyes have been opened by the terrible blood bath in which Hitler and his confederates are trying to drown all Europe in the name of the freedom of the German nation. Germany's name will remain forever dishonored if German youth does not at last rise up, avenge and destroy its tormentors and help in the building of a new spirit in Europe...
...March, Allied aircraft based in western Africa dropped something over 3,000,000 lb. of bombs; in April, more than 7,000,000 lb.; in May, more than 11,000,000 lb. In two months, the weight had thus more than tripled, and it was still on the rise in June. Furthermore, the concentration had increased...
Famed as "Miss Cutting's List" was her blue book of data on some 2,000 youths she considered acceptable guests. She would personally have preferred a smaller list, abhorred the custom of inviting three young men for every girl, once blamed it for the rise in alcoholic consumption. She recommended "a boy and a half to a girl, if a dinner dance, and two to one if a supper dance...
...Mexico City last week movie houses were packed by a wretched distortion of the life of Agustin Lara. Called Noches de Ronda ("Nights of Revelry"), it was a pale, sentimental story of a café musician's rise to radio fame. The face in the film was not the pinched, knife-scarred face of Lara, Mexico's most popular songwriter. The producers had taken one look at that and decided to give the role to the handsome singer Ramón Armengod. But what drew throngs to the box office was Lara's fantastic personal reputation...