Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here I cease listing facts and state my belief. I believe America can do a great deal. First by remembering that the Indian people, like ourselves, will not be rendered cordial by bluster and blame, especially on the part of the uninformed. Morale will rise of itself in direct proportion to India's conviction of the good faith of those who make promises and propose constitutions. If America and Britain could join in pledging that the Atlantic Charter will be implemented for India, that would help. But our greatest help at the moment, while we are equipping and directing...
Every defeat of American forces in the war causes a marked rise in the sales of war bonds, and each victory is followed by a corresponding decrease, a survey of the banks around the Square revealed...
Pearl Harbor caused a phenomenal rise in sales during December and January, but since then there has been a decrease of almost 50 per cent in bond sales, although stamps are selling better, and it is expected that the fall of Bataan will cause a new spurt...
...only a part, but a very important one, of WRUL's total activity, which includes programs in over 20 languages. Explaining the significance of these French broadcasts, Tyler stated they are playing a vital role in giving moral support to the French people, which they need, especially since the rise of Laval, to resist the German propaganda and blackmail by which the Nazis have been trying to force French collaboration. In a broadcast last Sunday, for example. Tyler exhorted the French people to ignore the "Gaulieter Laval" and assured them that the Allies were continuing to carry...
...Department of Agriculture revealed that U.S. farmland values had increased by $2,360,000,000 during the last year. Sharpest rise in almost a decade, it still left total farmland values at $36,000,000,000 v. 1920's World War I-ballooned figure of almost $55,000,000,000, and represented a rise of only 7% v. over 40% for all farm prices. Most farmers still remember the licking in land that they took the last time...