Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow countrymen in the U. S., do something if possible for his persecuted brethren elsewhere. The Assyrian Christians have had a long record of persecution. They have been a minority in the mountains of Kurdistan and the plains of Syria and Iraq since Mohammedanism's rise...
...shade of green was provided by the Department of Commerce's monthly survey of orders and inventories of 700-800 manufacturers (who probably manage their inventories better than business as a whole). June orders for this group rose 13% over May, and in spite of the rise in production their inventories fell 0.3%. A still brighter shade tinted the National Industrial Conference Board's monthly report from about 500 (also unrepresentatively prosperous) manufacturers: June orders were 17% above the average for 1936, while shipments rose only 11%. At the same time, it seemed that manufacturers were not passing...
...businessmen that business really was better. There were still two wide rivers to cross. Their pet barometer, the stockmarket, was still flat on its back, had scarcely twitched since its recovery from the Blitzkrieg Collapse (TIME, June 3). And businessmen could not down the fear that taxes would rise faster than profits, convert the Defense Boom to a profitless prosperity...
...Italians on their part, soon after entering the war, began advancing on the Sudan from the Abyssinian watershed where rise the Blue Nile and the Atbara River, around Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Fear of these streams' sources falling into Italian hands was one of the factors which undermined the famed Hoare-Laval Deal in 1935, whose adoption might have averted the Axis' being formed. Ethiopia became Italian anyway, and the threat to the vital water supply of Egypt and the Sudan was underscored by the Italian advance in this region...
...face of the danger of a war-born retail price rise during the next six months, the price cuts of the two big mail-order houses were important-for neither merchant is likely to change his prices until next January's catalogue...