Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepare U.S. radio listeners for a week during which it became difficult to tune in without hearing Benny hailed or Jell-O joshed, Variety had published a Benny issue, complete with impressive data on the rise and take* of radio's richest earner. On one program Eddie Cantor recited: "You've come up the hard way. old fellow, I mean the hard way, not the soft way like Jell-O." On another', Punster Fred Allen spent 60 minutes abusing his friendly enemy while Wife Portland tried to finish a squeaky paean beginning: ''All hail...
This is the students' first real chance to demonstrate just how sincerely they intend to practice what they preach. The cause is worthy; the need is great. The occasion is at hand, and let Harvard rise...
...eager to argue with those who believe that civil consumption can be cut down by allowing prices to rise as they naturally would. He points out that in copper, steel and other basic materials, price increases would not draw out really significant new capacity; he notes that in copper no price rise within reason would avert the necessity of copper imports, now averaging 25,500 tons a month; that almost every shred of present steel capacity is being utilized, even to moving Negro families out of old beehive ovens in the South. He points to the automobile industry...
...people have never done any harm . . . threaten to choke the National Socialist people's State . . . with the force of their capitalistic system and of their material production, then there can be only one answer: the German people will never again experience such a year as 1918, but will rise to still higher achievements in all branches of national resistance...
...result of this combination of rising taxes and costs has been an economic phenomenon: for the first time industrial production is going up faster than profits. In other periods of expanding business, profits have outrun production: in 1937's March quarter, when production was 28% over the corresponding period of 1936, profits rose 47%; a 20% production rise in the final quarter of 1933 boosted earnings 900%; even in 1929's first quarter a 14% rise in production lifted profits...