Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when clamor for a second front has given rise to serious questioning of the strength and integrity of our Russian allies, a film like this carefully prepared and intelligently presented account of the U.S.S.R.'s struggle against the Nazis is welcome fare. With a minimum of bravado and a maximum of restraint and straightforward presentation, "Moscow Strikes Back" paints a graphic and moving picture of heroic proportions about the struggle in which the Red Armies and the Russian people are now engaged. Every scene is packed with action, action that wasn't prepared in advance by scriptwriters and directors...
...legislative Government. Congress is not legislating. It is carrying out the orders of a handful of farm lobbyists. ... To see this thing . . . is an appalling event which sends a shudder through your frame if you want to keep this a democracy. Time and again I have said that dictatorships rise up out of the decayed ruins of parliamentary Government. . . . Congress, you are asking for it, and it will be a sorry day for the United States of America...
What worried police and welfare workers most was a sharp rise in juvenile delinquency. Near Chicago, two boys held a farmer's family terrorized for several hours, threatening to kidnap their young daughter. San Franciscans were shocked by the story of two girls, 12 and 13, living in a downtown hotel with three members of an orchestra. This was only one incident: the city was crowded with girls and women, eager for the easy life of a port city, drawn by soldiers waiting for embarkation...
Nice for the average citizen, this sharp rise in cash has the Treasury Department worried. For one thing, nobody knows where all the money goes after it leaves the mint. Best official guesses: 1) into bigger payrolls, including the huge all-cash soldier pay; 2) into a new crop of coin-operating devices; 3) into hoarding...
When the doors of Memorial Hall close this afternoon on the last of the weary upperclassmen, figures should show a rise of 67 men over last year's total, bringing the enrollment of the College up to 3580. The bulk of this increase, however, will be in the huge Freshman class, as war hits the ranks of the upper classes...