Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bird's-Eye View. Allowing for this rise in costs, and even with all the postponements, the rate at which new capital investments are being made is still at an alltime high. The utility and oil industries account for much of it. Electric light and power companies are in the early stages of a five-year expansion program that will cost $5 billion before it is finished. By the end of next year, oil companies will make additions and improvements worth some $4 billion, a boost of more than 22% in their total investments...
...retail price ceiling was not in sight. Wholesale prices (including farm products) pushed up for the fourth successive week. The Agriculture Department took back a previous prediction that food prices might ease off toward the end of the year. Some basics were on the rise; during the week the average price of metal and metal products lifted 4%. Cement companies advanced prices. Diesel locomotives would cost 6% more. Chrysler Corp. added an average of $87 to the price of its passenger cars (thus leaving Ford and Studebaker as the only major car manufacturers who have held the price line since...
...Gladiators. Among political observers, there is now a growing feeling that the G.O.P. convention at Philadelphia next year will be a real horse race, and that there will be no silver-platter nomination. To this feeling, the rise of Harold Stassen has contributed considerably. Political prognosticators guess that Taft and Dewey will go into the convention more or less neck-&-neck-with between 300 and 400 votes apiece. They are certain that Stassen will have less than 100. Stassen is not the first man who is regularly named as the compromise candidate. The vision of General Dwight D. Eisenhower stamped...
...epidemic that began in mid-June spread quickly. While the Ministry of Health talked soothingly to keep down public alarm, medical officers quietly shut swimming pools and children's cinema shows, called off children's holiday trips, discouraged public meetings. But the epidemic has continued to rise, and doctors fear that it has not yet reached its peak...
...first time, Harvardevans, which operated heretofore with approximately 50 vacancies, is completely filled. In the past students have been reluctant to stay at Devens, but a reduction in fall rates a gradual rent rise elsewhere, and the acute shortage of housing have all combined to fill the project...