Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rise to a point of order? In your issue of Jan. 29 Radio, p. 50, you describe one of the Grand Ole Opry sponsors as a chicory manufacturer...
...document's general forthrightness came cleanest in its politically audacious declaration for increased taxes on the middle brackets, if the national income fails to rise swiftly enough. Also dangerous political doctrine was a demand for reductions in high-bracket surtax rates...
Slower Population Growth Does Not Mean Stagnation. . . . The rate of our population growth is slowing down, but . . . through all the rise and fall of rate of population growth, an actual growth of population has taken place. . . . The National Resources Committee of the present Administration estimates that from 1930 to 1940 we have realized a 7.5% increase in population. This is an increase of 9,218,000. Whatever may be happening to the rate of population growth, here are over nine million more human beings American enterprise must service than we had ten years...
...help compensate for this rise, badly-needed wage increases of from 5% to 10% were enforced throughout Italian industry last March and a further wage rise is again needed to keep the Italian worker even on the bare subsistence level...
...Administration had agreed to allow "clearly understaffed" Departments to recommend men for promotion to "frozen" associate professorships. This meant that if the President kept good faith, and the Departments pushed their claims, some of the ten assistant professors could be promoted to permanency even though they might never rise higher than the level of associate professor. Now the grapevine has it that two of the forgotten ten, one in. English and one in Government, have been recommended for promotion to permanent tenure. And confirmation by the Corporation and Board of Overseers seems a sure bet. This is fine...