Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, said yesterday that he will soon issue a statement explaining the rise in HAA ticket book prices and the new seat allocation system...
...biggest threats to the success of the devaluation is the possibility that British wages and other costs will arise. Professor Smithies is optimistic about this point: "I think British costs can stay down because I don't believe there is much likelihood that wages will rise by much. And even if wages and costs should rise somewhat, they can't possible rise by the thirty per cent of devaluation...
Devaluation considerably improves Britain's changes of getting on her feet, Mason feels. "Exports will rise to the United States, and Britain will now be in the competition for the important Latin American market." Twin stumbling blocks seen by Mason are the possibilities that America will up her tariffs and that the increased cost of British imports may set off inflation in Britain. But still optimistic, Mason doubts that either of these two possible dangers will materialize...
Vision of a City. As far as the man in the window was concerned, these were minor irritations. Out of the excavation on Oliver Avenue would rise a 39-story skyscraper, the Mellon-U.S. Steel building, a $28 million token of faith in Pittsburgh's future. In R. K. Mellon's mind's eye was the vision of a whole new city-a second skyscraper, the $10 million, 30-story Alcoa building rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision...
...loudest cries of pain were heard in Britain itself. The government last week raised the price of nonferrous metals and of such humble objects as pots & pans. The first predictions of a 5% cost-of-liv-ing rise shot up to 10%. The trade unions were having Sir Stafford Cripps on the carpet, demanding wage boosts. The Tories charged that devaluation could have been avoided but for the Socialist government's mismanagement; Laborites replied that it was not so, asserted that they had devalued rather than cut Britain's welfare program and permit unemployment. Said one Labor leader...