Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than generous. In addition, the companies will split profits above ?40,000,000 up to ?43,500,000, after which the Government will take half until ?68,500,000 has been reached; after that, all. Since the agreement allows the companies to increase rates as prices and labor costs rise, financial writers figured that the stockholders would get more dividends than they have received in many peace years...
...their handling of great masses of people, their cunning use even of inanimate objects to reinforce drama. In all of them were moments which could never be forgotten: the disheveled hair of a dead woman slowly falling, straight and perpendicular, between the massive halves of a drawbridge as they rise (Ten Days That Shook the World); the medical officer's pince-nez, dangling from its black cord with pendulum-like regularity after catching in the rigging when the officer is thrown overboard by the crew (Potemkin...
...forcing the University to boost wage rates last year, the union was indirectly responsible for the rise in board rates for the House dining halls. Stefani denied yesterday that there was any move contemplated to injure students and said that any pay readjustments were within the limits of proper returns to the workers...
...capital ship, the Gneisenau or Scharnhorst, in Jade Bay; at (2) a set of new locks under construction to connect the inner ship basin with the outer harbor proper, formed by a long new mole (between 1 and 2). Locks are needed because, in the spring, tides here rise 11½ ft. A corner of Wilhelmshaven's great shipyards is just visible on the lower right...
...present Phoneman Moore is heckling the Michigan Public Service Utilities Commission for a 10% rate rise to cover the cost of making his manual system automatic. Last week he was also planning the installation of telephones in Caro's Hotel Montague. Under the Moore plan each room will have a telephone number listed in the book. After calling the room clerk to discover what room his friend has, the subscriber must hang up and rephone the room direct. That makes the contact twice as expensive...