Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy. A naval officer who knows them and their meaning better than the lines in his palm is Admiral James Otto Richardson. As a young midshipman, Texas-born "Joe" Richardson got his naval baptism charting the waters around the Philippines; not the least of the qualities which speeded his rise to high command was his thorough knowledge of Pacific oceanography and topography. At 61, homely, unofficious, friendly Joe Richardson is Commander in Chief...
...still believe that those who have brought us to this pass were merely ignorant and blind-but they have drawn us into an adventure that dumbs us with stupor." So shattered was France's strength, so humbled her prestige, that a greater miracle than Germany's rise after Versailles would be needed ever to restore them...
...immutable law of the air waves that the cost of radio entertainment varies inversely with the rise of the thermometer. Busy last week with summer substitutes for top-flight shows were NBC, CBS, MBS, many an advertising agency...
Professional traders fought the turn. The Wall Street Journal reported: "Wall Street did not follow the rise of Tuesday and Wednesday with any confidence. . . . Much of the buying came from out of town sources where business is scanned as much as the war news." Prominent performers in the rise were potentially big armament producers like Baldwin Locomotive and American Car & Foundry. But traders were still careful about overcommitting themselves for fear of what might happen if France collapsed. First day this week they were reassured. France surrendered, the market reacted by sliding off three and one-half points...
...Raklios back to shirtsleeves. Bankruptcy cut his chain to 13 restaurants, and more bad business put them on the block to be bought by Thompson's. Last year John Raklios, 58 and ailing, peddled bread at $25-30 a week for White Baking Co. Chicago newspapers reviewed his rise and fall last August when he was jailed for two days for a $2,000 debt under Illinois' antique debtors...