Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American worker's productivity, which has increased about 2% a year for generations, will continue to rise; productivity in 1980 will be more than 88% above last year's mark...
...Medical services of all kinds will be used far more than today. The proportion of people completing high school and spending some time in college will rise ... A nation on a 30-hour week will have more opportunity to pursue a multitude of arts . . . The chance is good that the arts will flourish in the United States as never before in the history of the world...
...failure of the recession to lower appreciably the major expenses added to college and university problems. Although a few such items as food cost Harvard a bit less, wages and salaries continued to rise. The individual increases were small but of big overall importance, for wages and salaries are 60 per cent of the University's total outlay...
Dennison attributes the rise of the jalopy star to the informal atmosphere of the track and the increased number of accidents resulting from bigger and more cars and the fact that all the drivers are amatures. There are a few turnovers every evening, but since they hardly ever involve serious injury and since most of the spectators know at least one of the drivers it makes good entertainment...
Eastern schools show an over all decline over last year's attendance, the national average a four percent rise. This rise is largely due to the southwest which shows a 29 percent increase and the far west which boasts a 7 percent gain...