Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alongside the giant transport planes, a Piper Cub looks like a gnat. A man can lift its tail with one hand, push it over with the other. On a fine summer's day, Cubs rise from the country's fields like a swarm of grasshoppers. Thousands of sportsmen, commuters, and joyriders use them for short hops between town and farm, home and hunting ground. Last week two young instructors from Maryland's College Park Airport proved that these flimsy air flivvers could also circle the world...
This week the Christian Century, Protestantism's gadfly, buzzed indignantly: "Nothing could reveal more clearly than these figures how appalling is the Protestant failure to rise to the opportunity presented by postwar Japan. . . . American Protestant Christianity is utterly failing to rise to the mandate which the Great Commission lays upon us. We deserve the verdict which history will pass upon us. Can there be any doubt what it will...
...same way. Last week, only six weeks after a 20?-a-barrel increase in the price of crude oil had upped retail gasoline and oil prices, Sun Oil Co. raised its buying price for crude again. This time the price went up 50? a barrel, the largest single rise oilmen could remember in years. It brought the price of crude bought by Sun Oil to $2.65, highest since...
...which are being paid ... by many of our competitors." But many oilmen disagreed when Pew added that "an increased price will prove an incentive for stimulating increased production" Crude was short because of high demand, lack of transportation and a shortage of drilling equipment for new wells. No price rise could cure these conditions...
Bouncing Back. U.S. tire builders, who cut prices 10% last spring, found their reductions premature. The record touring season last summer increased the demand for tires 10% above 1946. And the rise in labor and material costs nipped the profit margins of tire men. A month ago, General Tire & Rubber Co. announced a 7½% price increase. This week, the Big Four-Firestone, Goodrich, Goodyear and U.S. Rubber-followed suit. Their boosts: from...