Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rosenberg's Rise. Yet no copy writer has ever been able to pump more wordy gas into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy...
White lead: No shortage as yet; no price rise...
...insurance-company offices crawled with guesses as to when other companies would follow the Met's lead. Some stock companies have already done so. But for the big companies, figuring new premiums is a long, arduous, technical job, and it may be six months before the last rate rise is announced...
...weeks Sept. 15-Oct. 11, it starts Dec. 1. Last week, on the eve of the new decree's effectiveness, Canada heard tough talk from Donald Gordon, no longer shy and gangling (he is 6 ft. 3 in., 233 lb.). Warned he: "Rather than allow retail prices to rise, the prices of wholesalers and manufacturers must be reduced. Price control is going to be made effective. . . . You cannot compromise with inflation...
They have not had far to look for examples of unjustifiable Jim Crowism. The Navy, which refuses to permit colored men to rise above table help and valets (and which has made Annapolis so unpleasant for any Negro appointed that none have ever graduated), is chalked up as a hopeless outpost of feudalism by even the most optimistic colored leaders. The Army has shown a few glimmers of mildly progressive intelligence. A token air force of 100 pilots is being organized at Tuskegee as an answer to the charge that Negroes are admitted only to the infantry. But the military...