Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years. Until 1873, only the sons of Japan's warrior caste could be officers; and, until a very few years before that, ingrown Japan was uninterested in the schemes of conquest which alone could develop military imperialists. As it was, Seishiro Itagaki was free to join and rise in the new army. Japan in his boyhood was storing up the ambitions, greeds and hatreds which first exploded upon the white man's world in the year when Itagaki graduated from the Military Academy...
...Japanese War. But he shared with the army the pride of remembrance, the deep intent to complete the conquest of Asia which the Russo-Japanese War had merely begun. Brooding upon a Russia still in Asia, a U.S. thrusting into the near Pacific through the Philippines, he began his rise...
...meanwhile to figure out what was the matter with the vaccine. So far they have little to report. The vaccine, provided by the Rockefeller Foundation since 1936, consists of yellow-fever virus rendered harmless in the laboratory. The ½cc ampules must be kept in frozen storage, must not rise above 37° F. before use. There are three possible causes for the trouble: 1) the Army slipped up on vaccine handling; 2) the toned-down virus sometimes made people sick; 3) this particular batch had been contaminated by another germ...
...production held close to the all-time peaks in the July 25 week, and TIME'S Index was 177.4 (estimated), 0.8 point above the preceding week's final figure. Reason for the rise: bigger steel production and increased electric-power output...
...therefore going out and getting a defense job. There is scrap lying around everywhere, uncollected and unprocessed, and at the same time the only organization that can possibly turn in a satisfactory performance is slowly disintegrating. Only a recognition of the profit motive, such as perhaps a $2 rise in the scrap ceiling and more freedom to manipulate different classifications at will under the ceiling can possibly alter this unfavorable trend. The new advertising campaign to the general public to contribute scrap will likely serve only as a temporary fillip...