Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next came the rise of the family as a biological unit. Natural selection no longer worked on the individual organism alone. "The population was the unit of selection, much as the population of cells composing the multicellular organism was selected as a coordinated unit...
...farmers had been notoriously excluded from the 1940 boom. Then came Lend-Lease, and with it Secretary Wickard's appeal for huge quantities of dairy, poultry and pork products. Although the wheat, cotton and corn surpluses remained oppressive, the demands for food crops had begun a price rise, which the Congressional hayseeds, smelling Utopia, quickly climbed aboard. It took a Roosevelt veto to stop them from freezing the surpluses; but nothing could stop them from raising the floor under farm prices, nor from demolishing Leon Henderson's gingerly attempts to give them a ceiling. Result: farm prices...
...would radio showmanship in the U.S. rise to the occasion of war? Mindful of radio's potency over the public mind, radiomen had given this question anxious thought. They (and everyone else) got an answer of a sort last week from the Bill of Rights anniversary program. Heard by more people than any other U.S. radio "show" in history, it might serve as a touchstone for future patriotic programs...
...scant two months and two weeks since Adolf Hitler had announced to the German nation: "I say that this enemy is already smashed and will never rise again...
...Exceptions: extra fares and 1¼?-per-mile fare for servicemen on furlough would be unchanged; coal, coke and ore rates would rise only a few cents...