Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summer H. Slichter, Lamont University professor, saw a continued rise in prices in the offing...
...Truman's program is one that will be support by the people only if they rise above themselves and their special interests, even as the President rose above the ordinary level of political life in presenting the program. He offered a multiplicity of proposals which included: 1) consumer rationing of products in short supply 2) price ceilings on certain basic commodities 3) wage ceilings for the industries that produce such goods 4) strengthened rent controls 5) allocation of scarce commodities 6) regulation of speculative trading on commodity exchanges 7) restoration of consumer credit controls 8) measures to conserve and make...
...them, under pain of losing American support, to accept into their Government the very Communists who sought to destroy it." Now, said the Governor: "We have only one choice and that is wisely to aid those who stand with us in the world in the hope that they will rise again as bulwarks of the institution of human freedom...
Chairman Irving S. Olds reported that in the first nine months of this year U.S. Steel had netted $97,306,461 after taxes, a rise of 69% over the same period last year. (Besides the extra, its directors also increased the regular common stock quarterly dividend by 25? to $1.25 a share, thus putting the stock on an annual $5-a-share basis.) Olds also said that Big Steel "has not given any consideration to a price rise at this time...
Compared to General Motors Corp.'s report last week, Big Steel's rise was small. G.M.'s net for the nine months was $213,217,476, up 1,300% over 1946, when strikes shut G.M. down much of the time. Both companies actually did better than the net profit showed. They charged off record amounts for depreciation on the theory that "normal" depreciation write-offs are too small in the face of rising prices. Such write-offs, which for tax purposes are considered as profit, would have boosted Big Steel's net by $19.6 million more...