Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want labor to take a pay cut, which was what suspension of the 40-hour law would have meant. One of his reasons: the cost of living was rising at about the rate of 1½% a month, which will steadily nibble away the good wages. He hoped that OPA could hold the rise to a mere one-half of 1%, but he admitted this would take much work, much luck. A cut in labor's earnings now would provoke an outburst of wage disputes-at the very moment when labor & management were gingerly negotiating new contracts...
...legal eagle has been mild as mush, meek as Milquetoast. Ever since Dec. 7, the President has been waiting for him to wade into the ranks of known U.S. Bundists, Fascists and Axis sympathizers. Finally the President could wait no longer. He told Attorney General Biddle to rise up and smite all heathen idolaters...
...ways at the Norfolk Navy Yard, she had become known as "the rhythm ship'' because her welders, riveters and fitters were spurred on by recorded music ranging from symphonies to boogie-woogie. In Botany Worsted Mills' vast Passaic, N.J. plant (khaki for uniforms), light melodies rise above the din of weaving machines and shuttles for periods of five to 25 minutes, six times...
West Pointer (1915), pioneer Army tank officer and graduate of the service's best schools, Texas-born Eisenhower also has something that no school can give a soldier: common, practical sense. But common sense alone could not explain his swift and steady rise in the past six years to pivotal staff jobs. (Back in 1935 Douglas MacArthur picked him as his No. 2 man when he went to the Philippines as Commonwealth Military Adviser...
Says Artist Benton: "Evil and predatory forces are always with us. . . . Humanity must . . . rise up and tear their evil out of them and kill them. For this task, sensual hate, ferocity and brute will are necessary. . . . In these designs there is none of the pollyanna fat that the American people are in the habit of being fed. I have made these pictures for all Americans who will look at them...