Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Somaliland looks and feels like a cross between the Montana badlands and Death Valley. Except in the mountains near the coast, which rise as high as 6,500 ft. in a wall behind Berbera, it rains only 2½ inches per year. In July and August a hot, dry monsoon blows from the blazing Ethiopian hinterland. Nothing grows in British Somaliland except thorn trees, dense dry "bush" and tough desert fodder to keep alive the nomadic natives' herds of sheep, goats, camels, ostriches...
...rise of the dictator States has brought two problems of this kind. The relation of the Church to the dictatorships has to be carried to some tolerable solution. The relation of the dictatorships to non-dictator nations like our own has to be resolved...
...manufacturers. From Mrs. Harrison Williams, who bought her wardrobe at the openings, to a 30th Street shoestringer who stole his line by camera from Bergdorf's window, the whole world got the same word, simultaneously. Last week the U. S. dress business still half-hoped Paris would rise from its tomb to speak the authoritative word. But it also prepared...
Since War II started, Franklin Roosevelt and his men have damped more than one price spurt by methods not always polite. Last fall the posted steel price threatened to rise; the Temporary National Economic Committee called steelmen to Washington, argued for low prices, hinted at an anti-steel publicity campaign; the steel price stayed put. When housewives started to hoard retail sugar (TIME, Sept. 23), the President untied import quotas; in came Cuban sugar, down went prices. Copper began to move upwards; the President said the price was being watched, and the move slackened. Few weeks ago domestic mercury sold...
...production, they played a disproportionately large part in fixing pulp's market price, because most domestic pulp is used by the same integrated paper mills that make it, never goes to market at all. Some integrated U. S. companies with pulp to spare made money from the price rise, many a small paper mill got stuck...