Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that "Sleepy Tom" Stewart had done any wrong. Like Tennessee's other Senator, choleric old Kenneth McKellar, he knew where Mister Crump stood on most issues and acted accordingly. When anybody, anywhere, took Mister Crump's name in vain, Tom Stewart was likely to rise up on the Senate floor to defend "the South's greatest leader...
...Currency Committee recommended that Federal Reserve banks be required to back their currency notes by 40% in gold, the same ratio as prewar (it had been dropped to 25% as a war measure). This would have no immediate effect; reserves are actually at 49% now. Nor would the proposed rise in the rediscount rate; it was too small to be more than psychological in effect...
Noble Experiment. International Harvester Co., which did its bit to stem inflation by cutting prices last March, had to raise them again. The rise in the cost of materials had put the manufacture of more than half of Harvester's industrial power products in the red. The 5% price boost would put most Harvester prices about 2% above the precut level...
Students will overflow South Station today, when most of the local schools and colleges let out, Already yesterday, the number of young passengers was on the rise...
Vertical, tree-studded slopes are the bane of western skiers from Seattle to San Bernardino along the Pacific side of the Sierras. Further inland, however, the mountain tops rise above the timber line, providing countless open runs for the energetic skier...