Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy, on the Siberian frontier (see p. 24), in the Pacific, in Burma. No offensive army in modern history had ever spread itself so thin. And so in China his bailing slowed down and the water began to rise. Last week it had all but washed the Jap out of the coastal province of Chekiang, most densely populated, most modern and one of the most productive (wheat, beans, rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China...
...proved a flop, because the Administration was afraid to crack down on wage inflation and Congress was afraid to stop farm inflation. He had a feeling, he told his press conference, that the nation was being whipsawed between labor and farm groups. Without prompt action, food prices might rise another 30%, the cost of living would get out of hand. So he was ready to stabilize both wages and farm prices. The best guarantee that he meant what he said was that he arranged to break the news of his plan-in a message to Congress and fireside chat...
...stretched the formula almost to the breaking point when they made the raise retroactive to Feb. 15, ignored a C.I.O.-U.S. Steel fixed-wage contract running through Aug. 9. The four employer members screamed murder, said the majority had destroyed the sanctity of a contract, predicted the decision would "rise to plague" them...
...more than twice the biggest popular-song sale. The only slump has been in the songs and dance tunes peddled by Charing Cross Road (London's Tin Pan Alley). Phonograph companies, doing a 60% above normal business, cannot cope with the increased demand for classical disks. Most spectacular rise of all-400%-has been in the sales of miniature scores (pocket-size reductions of symphonic scores, usually bought only by musicians, music students and zealous amateurs...
Reason given by the manager of the Crimson Barber Shop, who proposed the scheme, is that "everything is going up." He specifically referred to soap, towels, tonic, and the like, as well as to labor costs. The proprietors who are holding out against the price rise have stated that they are willing to up shave and shampoo prices, because of the additional costs, and because such jobs are luxuries which the customer can do for himself, whereas haircuts are necessities...