Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed solution to the income tax payment problem [TIME, Aug. 10] the heartfelt congratulations of myself and, I am quite sure, thousands of others like me who have been lying awake nights trying to figure out how to budget a 1942 income tax, a 1943 withholding tax, a 15% rise in the cost of living, and an earnest desire to purchase war bonds, into 1943's anticipated income...
...would be better for a united America to lose this war than for America to remain disunited; for a united America would rise from defeat, but if a part of tis won and a part of us lost, we would remain divided forever...
...killing more older women than tuberculosis. From 2% to 3% of all living Americans will eventually die of diabetes.* What is the explanation? Why are more & more people unable to use or store the sugar in the food they eat? To a very slight degree this rise is a statistical illusion. In the last 40 years more people have been going to doctors, and more doctors have begun looking for diabetes. In the past diabetes was sometimes overlooked as a cause of death, but statistics have become increasingly reliable...
Even so, Dr. Elliott Joslin of Harvard, probably the No. 1 U.S. diabetes expert, and Statistician Louis Dublin of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. warn that the rise in diabetic death is real. For insulin neither cures nor prevents diabetes. It has saved the lives of most diabetics under 45, prolonged the lives of those over 45. But insulin, observes Dublin, does not confer immortality. Sooner or later diabetes becomes complicated with other diseases like pneumonia, cancer, hardening of the arteries, etc. Diabetics are especially susceptible to gangrene (the tiniest infections are dangerous) since their blood vessels are often blocked with...
...sermon: such increases for any one group must not continue. Wage earners must forgo wage increases beyond those dictated by necessity. Ceilings must be put on many farm prices. (Price-controlled commodities have gone down, but this has been offset by a rise in uncontrolled goods.) Corporate profits must be cut. "Unless we step in and put a stop to further increases those ceilings will crack and our battle for stability will be lost. ... It means that the cost of living will begin to skyrocket, that demands will outrace incomes in a dizzy upward spiral that can only...