Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American relations. In the third year of the Good Neighbor policy, in Mexico's eleventh month of war on the U.S. side, at a time when the U.S. was spending many millions of dollars south of the border, suspicion of the gringos was again on the rise. The 13th Pan American Day was approaching, and Good Neighbor oratory was in order, but Ambassador Messer smith considered it necessary to play the stern mentor. Said he, in his most impor tant speech since he took over the Embassy in early...
...Daniel W. Tracy, Assistant Secretary of Labor and longtime boss of A.F. of L.'s electrical workers union. Stark found that the Board in some cases has allowed wages to advance by more than 60% over their Jan. 1, 1941 levels. Under the Little Steel formula they could rise only...
...Danger. Franklin Roosevelt blamed the rise in the cost of living mainly on "our failure to bring food costs under control." The Bankhead bill, he declared, would compound that failure. "Under it ... the price of sugar would rise 1½? a pound, the price of bread might go up ? a loaf. . . . The price of corn could rise almost 10% which . . . would certainly call forth a demand for higher prices for hogs and livestock, poultry, eggs, milk. . . . These price increases . . . might swell the cost of living more than...
What Johnny and many another soldier was doing, civilians back home were doing, too. Under the stress of war, people were turning to religion. One sign was a definite rise during the past year in the sale of religious books...
...success of Will Calloway Grant, 36, of Chicago, is the current sensation of the U.S. advertising business. Few weeks ago one rival ad salesman grew so envious that he started a rumor that Grant Advertising Inc. owed its vertical rise in gross billings to such dubious practices as taking split-commission contracts.* Grant's answer was typical-and, as usual, irritating to the rest of the secretive advertising world: last week an auditor was going over his books right back to the day when he got his first account. Grant then blandly-and publicly-suggested that the entire industry...