Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That I can say now. I say it only today because I can say that this enemy is already broken and will never rise again...
...system rests on the premise that capital should go where it is most needed, and that this usually is determined by where it is offered the highest rates of return. When one particular business or industry is overbuilt, rates of return drop; where another is underbuilt, rates of return rise. It is the working of this principle that has kept the intricate relationship of one business to another in balance while we grew to be the greatest industrial country in the world. An arbitrary fixed return would draw private capital not into the expansion of armament industries, where...
...only 9% (over 1940) by June 30 of this year. But, says Brookings, most 1941 crops had not then been marketed; the full year's farm income will be 18% over 1940, highest since 1929. Since 1941 farm output will be only 2% above 1940, the farm income rise will be chiefly due to higher prices...
...Office of Price Administration, says Brookings, is helpless, since even the proposed law does not give it control over wages, or over farm products until 110% of parity is reached. Yet these two factors are chiefly responsible for the 21% rise in wholesale prices since...
Sending armed supply ships into the war none, Gardiner remarked, would be an necessary risk since America would only be incurring the possibility of open battle. such as incident would give rise to bitter feeling and would serve to draw the whole might of the united States into...