Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time industrial production is proceeding "as usual," it is enjoying more than comfortable profits. According to Leon Henderson profits are up 169 per cent over the 1939 level and are still rising. In the first six months of 1941, they increased 33 per cent over those for the similar period the previous year. Even the Wall Street Journal says that profits have increased. There has been a price rise of 14 per cent of which only 7 per cent is due to labor costs, Isidore Lubin, U. S. Labor Commissioner, reported to a Senate committee. Lubin further asserted that...
Next day the President gave big sporting Bill Knudsen another job, made him a lieutenant general in the Army* in charge of Army production (a salary rise from nothing-a-year to $9,872)-a post in which Production Man Knudsen may come into...
...would be better for a united America to lose this war than for America to remain disunited; for a united America would rise from defeat, but if a part of us won and a part of us lost, we would remain divided forever...
Expecting a post-holiday reaction from the Christmas buying spree, U.S. retailers found to their surprise that the spree is still going on. In the first week of January, department-store sales were 26% above 1941; in the second week, a fabulous 32%. Less than half this rise can be attributed to higher prices. At their regular January white sales, department store counters were jammed with hoarders, laying in supplies of everything from cotton sheets to wool socks...
...largest sugar order ever: $200,000,000 worth, 3,450,000 tons. This is 80% of Cuba's total 1942 crop. > OPA raised its ceilings on raw and refined sugar about 7% (24? per cwt. for raw, 20? for refined). While the chief reason for the raw-sugar rise was to bring all prices into line with the DSC-negotiated price to Cuba, it should also encourage increased production, both off-shore and domestic. > This week refiners and large industrial consumers met in Washington to discuss sugar allocations for the year. One likely outcome: requisitioning and reallocation of excess...