Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received an ovation. He had not yet lost his power to charm Parliament, which still loved him for his gallantry under political fire. Parliament still believed he was the one man who could make Britain feel and rise to meet the awful necessities...
...only assured maximum essentials for army and civil servants' consumption centers but are likely to leave a surplus. The success of Government price control is seen in the fall of prices of rice and wheat flour since the Dragon Boat Festival (May 5), a period when prices usually rise. The food structure seems guaranteed...
Manual laborers have experienced a drop in their standard of living, but a rise in relation to educated workers. Ricksha coolies live as well as clerks and teachers. War has shaken the family system by scattering families, calling youths into war work, liberating women. People banding together to fight economic misery crowd together in houses and form eating cooperatives. People eat more in restaurants because of the high cost of fuel and servants...
Last week the shippers gave their estimate for the next 90 days, predicted a rise of 4.6% in carloadings over the summer of 1941, of 7.2% over this year's spring. Actually this forecasts a tonnage increase of well over 4.6%, however, since recent limitations on half-filled cars have cut less-than-carload figures more than one-third, from 143,000 a week to 92,000. Interesting points...
When the R.A.F. blitzed Lubeck last April, they destroyed a literary landmark, the ancestral home of emigre Novelist Thomas Mann. The Mann mansion was an 18th-Century rococo building popularly known as the Buddenbrookshaus after Mann's two-volume first novel, Buddenbrooks-a genealogical account of the rise & fall of a middle-class German family engaged in the Lubeck grain & feed trade...