Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good party politics. As a candidate for governor of California in 1946 he won an unprecedented renomination on both Democratic and Republican tickets, promptly appointed men of both parties to state office. To some party regulars, such action was close to party treason. To Warren, it meant a rise in his popularity...
Vice-President Edward Reynolds '15 attributed the new rates to a "substantial rise in the cost of food," and warned that the new level is by no means final. "There appears to be very little prospect of a noticeable decline in the near future, "he said...
Reynolds listed two principal reasons for the rise: The costant increase in food costs--especially meat and dairy products--and a higher wage scale for employees than previously...
...sharply and U.S. department store sales last week showed a 16% gain over the same week last year. This was partly due to an extra shopping day this year. But it was also due to the enormous demand kept up by industrial employment, which is still on the rise. It reached a record of 52,801,000 in August, some 350,000 above the previous month. (But total employment fell because of the seasonal midsummer slack on farms.) In the face of all this, it looked as if the U.S. could tighten its credit belt a great deal more before...
...blue Appalachians faint at the day rise...