Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent months there has been a rapid rise in the number of cases where children are being left to care for themselves while the mother is out working in an avid grab for the big "defense" dollar. (There are an estimated 1,500 in Kansas City alone.) If this practice is allowed to continue, our already overburdened Government will find another real job has fallen to its lot-the operation of nursery schools; a great expense with questionable results...
...from being a bad thing, an overall rise in interest rates might help in this bond-selling job, though voluntary campaigns will almost certainly not be enough. To put a further brake on consumer spending the Government will have to rely heavily on forced savings (now implicit in the Victory tax), combined with much higher and broader regular taxes. Thus the U.S. is about to follow the lead of Britain which long ago discovered that forced savings are a vital part of wartime financing...
Knights of Malta. Largest of the five diminutive islands which cluster near the Sicilian Channel, flounder-shaped Malta is about 17 miles long, little more than nine miles wide. Steep cliffs rise out of the surf on her south shore; on her north, rocky boulders tumble into...
Like Dinah's drive, Dinah's rise has been more of a trajectory than a career. In two years Miss Shore has become the No. 1 female blues singer. She queens the juke boxes within an inch of Bing Crosby ("than whom," says Dinah, "there is no whomer"). Her extracurricular "honors" have piled up like ticker tape. She was "Queen" of the Brooklyn Dodgers, "Queen" of Manhattan's famed Seventh Regiment, is "Sweetheart" of more Army camps than she can remember. At Manhattan's Butlers' Ball she was named "The Girl We Wish Would Come...
Recently Dictator Pitul ordered that all Siam must rise at 8 a.m., stand at attention while radios blared the national anthem. To rouse lie-abeds, factory whistles blew, army & navy guns roared, temple bells clanged...