Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, Jan. 30, the anniversary of your birth, smoke-begrimed men, covered with the marks of battle, rise from the fox holes of Bataan and the batteries of Corregidor to pray reverently that God may bless immeasurably the President of the United States. So cabled General Douglas Mac Arthur, who, like Winston Churchill, can turn a dramatic phrase...
Somewhere along his rise from sewer worker to political boss of Chicago, Edward Joseph Kelly learned not to drop his gs, acquired a hard, shining polish. To his machine's reputation for ballot-stuffing, patronage-grabbing, "muscling" the votes of prostitutes and gamblers, there still clings a sewer-like smell. But the sanctified odor of a Senatorial toga, thought Ed Kelly, might cover that...
Production Up. TIME'S Index rose to 172.5 (estimated) in the week ended Jan. 31, more than 3 points higher than that for the previous week (169.2). The recent rise in carloadings was responsible...
...freeze stopped Canada's price rise dead for almost two months. But it also brought forth some loud squeals. Many retailers were caught because their prices had risen more slowly than their costs. Importers, unable to raise prices on higher cost goods, had to be subsidized. Farm pressure forced WPTB to eliminate some ceilings. Meanwhile, Canada still has more "free" buying power than goods, to avoid inflation is having to turn to more taxes, savings, rationing...
...rental rates at Nutter's are up one cent a mile over last year, but the students accepted the rise without a murmur, said Hooker...