Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple friendliness of the Roosevelt greeting made sense to President Prado. Peru's executive is no stuffed shirt. His father was twice President of Peru; a brother, the late Leoncio, is a national hero. Manuel Prado was a scientist, an industrial manager, a banker. But his rise had been a hard grind. His first political experience, as superintendent of a polling station in the elections of 1912, was a beating by a hostile mob. While an undergraduate at Peru's University of San Marcos, he enlisted in the Army as a private, saw front-line service during...
Ever since mid-1940, British stocks have been pushing upwards. Total rise since October 1940: about 25%, v. a 40% decline for the Dow-Jones industrial average. Yields on British stocks are now under 4% v. nearly 8% for U.S. stocks...
...Eastern Affairs, a Catholic theologian- address themselves to definite groups with in the Reich. Miss Thompson gives a weekly talk for her old anti-Nazi friends in Germany. The effectiveness of this work is attested by the fact that at least two broadcasts by Miss Thompson got a rise; out of Goebbels himself...
...greatest drop is in the field of English, where the number of men fell from last year's leading position of 120 to fifth position with 66. English was shoved back by the phenomenal rise of Biochemical Sciences from 48 to 84 for third place. Chemistry, with a steady increase, brought its number up to 71 for fourth place. On the heels of English was Physics, showing almost a 300 per cent rise from...
...enforce the new overall price ceiling announced by OPA this week. U.S. patriotism does not work that way. Bootlegging flourishes for economic reasons, not moral. As long as there is more cash to spend than there are things to spend it on, and prices are not allowed to rise openly, they will rise privately. Verboten goods will change hands...