Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miners' demand for a 55-peso ($2.20) daily minimum wage had been rejected; the company's counter offer of a 15% pay rise (16?) had been turned down. A month's patient mediating by the Government had ended in failure. Last week, the coal miners of Lota stayed in their grubby little dirt-floor huts on the edge of the Pacific and the strike...
...election of nine men to the City Council. "Plan E," a system for Cambridge managerial government, is up for reaffirmation. Praised and condemned with equal vehemence by rival factions, the plan has been operating during the past two years on a slim majority in the council and must rise or fall in the coming election...
...line, Harlow said his tackles were a major factor in its rise to prominence. "Chester Pierce has come along splendidly," the coach said. "Howie Houston is magnificent, and the guards are coming along well." Among the backs, he is pleased-with the running of Paul Lazzaro...
...last week. The Cabinet turned down the Department of Agriculture's proposal that only 350 million bushels of grain be exported this crop year. Instead, it approved the State Department's request for 475 million bushels. After the decision was announced, grain prices, which had begun to rise on reports of frost, spurted up sharply...
...week's end, wheat had recovered three-fifths of the ground that it had lost the preceding fortnight. Some wholesale food prices, which had started to drop in keeping with the drop on the exchanges, also went up again. The rise continued as trading opened this week. As long as the Government insisted on enormous food exports, despite the bad corn crop, traders were sure grain prices would remain high or go higher...