Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...index of the wholesale price per pound of 31 staple foods last week hit $7.02, an alltime record (a year ago it was $4.99). Wholesale prices, which had been dragged up by the skyrocketing food prices, were within 7% of the alltime high reached in 1920-and the rise in recent weeks has been far sharper than it was after World War I. Would there be the same drop s? Nobody knew for sure, but there was another flurry of nervous talk of recession and buyers' strikes...
This is a picture of the real heroes of Moscow's history-Moscow's people who lived between the heights of cathedrals and citadels. But history sums up Moscow's 800 years not by telling of the peoples anonymous pageant, but by chronicling the rise of their rulers. The pageant started with a hermit called Bukal who lived in the midst of a thick morass by the banks of the Moskva River, where the Kremlin stands today...
...teacher is embarrassed by it. "Nothing is more quickly communicated than a feeling of embarrassment; and even though the teacher may not be respected, the embarrassment tends to remain, and to be associated, however vaguely, with the subject which gave rise...
Irreversible Trend? In its sixth successive weekly rise, the Department of Labor's index of wholesale prices inched up .8% to a new postwar high of 153.5% (of the 1926 average). The Dow-Jones commodity futures index spurted 3.45 points to 152.03, highest since the index was started in 1933. Nothing would pull prices down, said General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson somewhat hopelessly, except "technological advances and more efficient mass production...
...Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to boost all sleeping-car rates under $17.70 from 1% to 49%. The increases would amount to about $13 million a year. This, said the company, would be little enough considering the drop in annual revenues of $31 million compared with 1944, and a rise in costs of $26 million a year since 1942, the year of its last general fare boost...