Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several months ago, farm prices were fixed at 110 per cent of parity, but the government planned to keep them below that level by selling at sub-parity prices important crops held as collateral for loans. Some such strategy was necessary, for rising farm prices mean an enormous inflationary spiral. Not only food prices would rise, but, since half of our farm produce goes into industrial raw materials, all other prices would go up too. The House Committee has refused to pass a Senate rider to the current appropriation permitting the Administration to sell 125,000,000 bushels of wheat...
...aimed to do. The Editors are not unaware of TIME's faults and deficiencies. They are grateful for the constant and progressive criticism of discerning readers. Thanks to them, the Editors hope there may never be a year in which TIME'S standard of performance does not rise...
Peak of the national debt at the close of World War I was $26½ billion. This week, at the end of the Government's fiscal year, seven months after Pearl Harbor, the debt stood at $76 billion, a rise of $27 billion since last year. Government expenditures in June were an estimated $4½ billion, were on the way up to the stars. No one said "Wheel...
...life. This .. . will permit me to speak about the others as the others have spoken about me." His great liberal following of the Anti-personalists and Radical Parties had one general hope: if the sick Ortiz was not there to lean on, some equally capable and healthier leader might rise...
...price control could not work unless farm prices were included too. But farm prices, after soaring 44% in the 13 months ending last January, have just wound up four straight months of fairly stable prices. They stopped going up-at least temporarily-three months before Leon temporarily halted the rise in living costs...