Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barber, fascinated by high-toned music, the idea of a baseball announcer turning up with the Philharmonic was not at all incongruous. He is convinced it takes culture to handle a play-by-play account of a ball game and he earnestly delves into such works as The Rise of American Civilization to give himself background for his job. Clinical in his attitude toward sport, he has charted the records of each big-league player, has memorized most of the data of the Spalding Guide Book all the way back...
...suggestion is to take off Leon Henderson's price ceilings ($20 a ton for No. 1 heavy melting scrap at Pittsburgh), let prices rise to a level where every U.S. junkman would lengthen his route and hours. But this suggestion comes mostly from scrap dealers, finds little support from steelmen such as Eugene Grace...
...have known Ben Lear since he began his career in the U.S. Army, as a sergeant in the First Colorado Volunteer Infantry in the Philippines. His rise from such a start to his present position speaks for his devotion to the service, and his qualities as a soldier. Now he has a job to do, and is doing it in his own way, and who should know a better way ? . . . HARRY J. AMPHLETT...
...this discomfort is not present, but setting the clock ahead has no effect on drying the dew off the grass, and dew immemorially has dried off about 9 a.m. Not until 10 a.m. daylight time, therefore, can much field work begin, so that whether or not they have to rise earlier to tend dairy cattle, their quitting time will be an hour later by the clock...
...shipping company was listed. Brazilian legalists asked whether Standard Oil's Brazilian subsidiary would sell gas to Condor. If not, would it run afoul of Brazil's anti-trust laws? If yes, would Standard blacklist its subsidiary? In Buenos Aires, annoyed and puzzled businessmen chiefly feared a rise in prices, since German firms usually underquote...