Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floods (see p. 20) washed out rails, covered highways, broke the Big Inch pipeline near Little Rock, Ark., cutting off a flow of some 200,000 bbl. per day. Meantime black-market sales were draining away thousands of barrels a day for illegal use. Passenger motoring was on the rise. Farmers were rushing to finish weather-delayed spring planting; tractors began to run dry from Maine to Virginia...
...against the War Labor Board, during parts of last week. In Detroit 25,000 men struck six major plants for three days because of delays by WLB in hearing their grievances. In Akron 40,000 rubber workers stopped work when WLB granted them only a 3?-an-hour pay rise instead of an expected 8? rise. Many a union, apparently, was discovering that Government is just as tough a taskmaster as private industry. Others were following the lead of John L. Lewis: strike down WLB or any other agency that refuses wage rises...
...rates are not easily explained. All that health officials can point to are the increased deaths from pneumonia and meningococcus meningitis (TIME, March 22). A recent Public Health Service survey of absenteeism among industrial workers shows that, in the final quarter of 1942, respiratory diseases were sharply on the rise among the 250,000 men studied. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Statistical Bulletin reports a 5.5% increase in deaths among industrial policyholders and adds some clues on 1943 trends...
...what he called "African Pip" or "Puny Pyle's Perpetual Pains.") "I was busy killing flies. . . . Lieut. Clark said he had discovered . . . that flies always take off backwards. Consequently if you'll aim about two inches behind them, you'll always get your fly on the rise. So for the next few days I murdered flies under this scientific system. And I must say that I never missed a fly as long as I aimed behind...
...shots-90% from newsreels and confiscated enemy films-rise to levels of tragic poetry (a drum-deafened sequence of hordes of marching Axis children, youths, men in uniform, and the dazed faces of their elders) and pity and terror (a shrill, doomed maggot-swarm of naked, newborn, state-ticketed Axis babies). There is some effort-there might well have been more-to demonstrate the United Nations' shameful failure to realize the intimate connection between their fate and that of a ravaged Manchurian hut in 1931. There is also a 1939 newsreel, a poll of man-in-the-street views...