Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the railroads (because of their large current business and excess-profits tax credits) are huge beneficiaries of the war-production boom, their shares were the outstanding target for bears. Bulls placing bets on a prompt peace caused an almost perpendicular rise in the long-neglected bonds of conquered Europe...
...lead, a growing portion of its lumber (particularly mahogany, for plywood planes), plus important fractions of its needs for molybdenum, mercury, cobalt, manganese, mica, tungsten, tin, vanadium. This year Mexico will ship the U.S. some 400,000 tons of these metals alone; next year the figure should rise to nearly 2,000,000 tons...
...duty of the Allied Nations to see that the post-war world is free from the evil influences of Nazism and Fascism, and that the Axis leaders are not allowed to rise to positions of power again. This can be accomplished by arresting and imprisoning for life the leaders of the Axis nations and their Quisling representatives in the occupied countries. Any attempt at specifically fixing the war guilt and providing punishment for war crimes will only result in a jumble of conflicting ideas and provide a source of ridicule for posterity...
Werner William Schroeder's rise in the G.O.P. stems from the turbulent days of the late Len Small, onetime Governor of Illinois. Small made him his protege; gave him his first job at 16 addressing letters. When Small won the governorship in 1920, Schroeder became Secretary of the State's Legislative Reference Bureau. When Small was indicted for having withheld State funds while he was Treasurer, Schroeder defended him, won a sensational acquittal, which was followed by charges of jury fixing.* Known as a good organizer and money-raiser, prosperous Lawyer Schroeder is close-mouthed and shrewd. When...
...swearing there is no specific contraction of the diaphragm [as in laughter and weeping], but there is a general increase in neuromuscular tension, an increase in blood pressure and an acceleration of its flow, and a rise in the amount of sugar in the blood, respiration is accelerated, and there is a general feeling of tension which is gradually reduced as the swearing proceeds. ... [It] is a psychological means of keeping the organism physiologically clean." Dr. Ashley-Montagu approves swearing among females. "Today, instead of swooning or breaking into tears, [women] will swear and then do something useful...