Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only let loose the Berlin songs in Washington but recorded them for Victor last week, sang one of them on the CBS-Lucky Strike Your Hit Parade. He has been vocalist and master of ceremonies on that program for a year and a half, has helped in the steady rise of its Crossley ratings, until the "hits" it presented turned out to be non-ASCAP songs like Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair...
...Asked Standard Oil of Ohio to postpone a proposed ½?-a-gal. rise in Diesel, tractor and furnace oil prices...
General Chen is a favorite partly because he has curried favor. He is one of China's most political and ambitious generals. He hitched his wagon to Chiang's star at Whampoa, has been riding high ever since. After his rise to public fame in Chiang's northern campaign of 1926, he divorced his wife and the Generalissimo arranged for him to marry the daughter of Tan Yen-kai, soon afterward Premier of China...
...which can slope upward only slowly in the future. But the amount of production going into armament had increased sharply since October, would increase even more in the future. Henceforth production heretofore taken by civilians would have to be diverted to defense even though civilian purchasing power continued to rise. Concluded Zelomek: "We are now well into the period in which economic factors . . . have become inflationary, for the first time since the war began...
...rise in commodity prices got a step nearer the serious stage last week...