Word: rising
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...America had a creative period (1770-1860) arising from her first colonization. . . . Probably a second period of 'manifest destiny' is just around the corner. . . . If the Anglo-Saxon fails to rise to the challenge, the French-Canadian and possibly the hillbilly will...
Last week was bad for Price Administrator Leon Henderson. It was a week in which a six-month-old price rise (led by agricultural commodities) gathered speed...
...This was King Cotton, whose price, thanks to the Fulmer Cotton Loan (85 %-of-parity) Act, has led the whole commodity list skywards in recent weeks. OPACS is formally in favor of parity prices for cotton (16.12? a Ib.). But after the price crossed 15? last week, the sympathetic rise in cotton textile and cottonseed oil prices drew OPACS's fire...
...corporation taxes to a staggering $4,354,200,000. It not only would impose the first surtax ever levied on corporate income: 5% on surtax net income of $25,000 or less, 6% on anything over that. But excess-profits taxes will start at 35% (instead of 25%), rise to 60% (instead of 50%), and, most important of all, will be calculated before instead of after deducting normal taxes, thereby greatly increasing the levy. Moreover, the present 8% credit on invested capital is cut to 7% on capital over $5,000,000. And a special...
Over the O-9's last station the Navy fired 21 guns, dropped wreaths, said eulogies. In seven submarine disasters since 1915, the Navy had lost 173 men. Unlike the O-9, those numbers will rise again. Submarines are dangerous...