Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better had they concentrated price fixing and rationing on a few basic necessities, typically food, while allowing luxuries to find their own price in the market. Against such a policy the OPA argues that it is extremely difficult to distinguish between necessities and luxuries, and secondly that if luxuries rise in price, manufacturers will switch into making them rather than necessities. But OPA tends to gloss over the fact that higher prices also reduce the demand for goods...
...upsets featured yesterday's doings on the House football front. The afternoon saw Eliot rise to conquer Lowell 7-0, and Dunster play unbeaten Leverett to a scoreless standstill. All four teams were not at full strength because of conflicting exams...
...hospital is being built on a slight rise overlooking a fertile valley. A temporary storehouse holds thousands of pounds' worth of medicines and the latest most elaborate scientific equipment the world can offer. The hospital is being rushed up first to 1000-bed capacity, then to double that number. Eventually it will cover 40 acres of land...
Aside from Winthrop's rise from $31.40 to $81.60, there were no outstanding changes in any of the Houses, all of them dropping except Kirkland. Adams was dropped from first to third by these two changes, followed by Leverett, Dunster, Lowell, and Eliot in that order...
Army was never in any danger of losing the game, although occasionally there were times when its lead might have been whittled down to one touchdown. One of these occasions gave rise to a controversy that has still not been settled and probably will not be until the movies of the game are released...