Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People Will Rise...
...Columnist B. C. Forbes, American Legionnaire 0. K. Armstrong, Journalist George E. Sokolsky. He quotes Hart: "If you find any organization containing the word 'democracy,' it is probably . . . affiliated with the Communist Party." More intriguing than the textbook battle is Professor Rugg's account of the rise of U. S. "frontier thinkers." A descendant of a Minute Man who fought at Lexington and Concord, Harold Rugg studied civil engineering at Dartmouth, spiked rails in the Middle West, taught at University of Illinois and University of Chicago, classified Army personnel in World War I. All this, he says...
Since railroad overhead costs are both large and inflexible, an abrupt rise in car-loadings means an even sharper rise in railroad profits. Once the break-even point is passed, "leverage" carries much of the increase in gross directly to net. Thus February carloadings of all Class 1 roads were 23% over 1940, but net operating income (profit before interest and taxes) rose 75%. Two other bullish points are labor and taxes. Shielded by intricate Federal machinery, the railroads have not had a big strike since 1922. By taking the 8%-on-capital option of the excess-profits tax, most...
...hardest, resulted in three times more accidents than the next 1,250 hours. Said General Dargue: "As long as the human element is the human element there will be accidents. When an emergency makes it necessary to train men rapidly, the experience curve will temporarily drop, the accident curve rise. It is regrettable, but there is nothing which can replace experience...
...seven years the banker has been the forgotten man of U. S. business. But last week commercial loans of banks reporting to the Federal Reserve showed their 24th consecutive rise, touched $8,600,000,000 (up 14.4% since outbreak of World War II to a new high since 1929). The commercial loan figure, once almost as good a guide to business activity as the Federal Reserve Board index of production, was beginning to follow the industrial curve again...