Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find out why the additional operating expenses for Quincy House were not foreseen. At last week's press conference, the Administration said the operational cost of the Quincy kitchen was one reason for the proposed rise in board rates...
...Journal's front page-six solid columns of type unrelieved by a picture-has no rival among U.S. metropolitan dailies. Its stories can hardly be called sensational: a looming shortage in milk bottles, potholes in the Inter-American Highway, a slump in the price of dried fruit, a rise in individual assets-to cite but a few of the subjects that rated Page One play last week...
Princeton & Gielgud. Despite A.J.C.'s pessimism, New York last week launched an impressive "Higher Horizons" program, aimed at the heart of the city's "unequal facilities" problem. The goal: a sharp rise in the aspirations and achievements of children in "less-favored" neighborhoods. Already New York has good evidence that the goal is reachable...
...useful as a long-term guarantee that countries can meet their bills. But they have long since ceased to regard it as the sole test of a currency's stability. More important in today's world is the health of a nation's economy, the real rise in its national income, the strength of its built-in fiscal controls. Most nations now have learned the heavy price of unsound financial and fiscal policies; they no longer need the lash of gold...
...broke again early in the Depression, when overproduction in the East Texas fields brought posted prices down to 10? a barrel. He lived on credit, unable to pay either his office rent or his $8 monthly dues at the Fort Worth Club. In 1932, as oil prices began to rise, Sid came out of hibernation...