Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentleman from Indiana. Elmer Holmes Davis, now 53, was born in Aurora, Ind., a tired little town which got along by making boxes and coffins, selling to farmers on Saturday night and keeping one eye cocked for a rise in the Ohio River. His father, the elderly, bearded president of Aurora's First National Bank, was known as the richest man in town...
Given the gold, the country still has plenty of ultimate reserves; the danger lies in the rapid rise in deposits. Yet here again the banker has played safe-safer than he would like. One source of deposit money is commercial loans. In 1917-18, for instance, total bank loans rose by 50%. But since the U.S. has been at war, total bank loans have actually decreased, now stand at about $16 billions, only $3 billions above...
...general wage increase now if, from mid-March to mid-August, each firm sets aside a special fund covering the cost-of-living increase for all employes from May 15, 1942 to March 15,1943. (May 1942 was the month when the "Little Steel" formula stopped counting the rise in the cost of living...
...feeding Germany, which might be done, he pointed out, by distributing food through the schools and thereby building up a new faith in the educational institutions. Greatest danger to post-war schemes is the group of Germans aged from 15 to 40 years who have lived through Hitler's rise and are staunch advocates of Nasiam...
There was no indication that real draft dodging was on the rise. Selective Service figures last week showed that since the draft began only 11,730 real cases of draft dodging had been reported. In these, 4,023 dodgers were convicted, sent off to prison...