Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Obsolete or Obsolescent." Gaitskell's lavish promises promptly evoked an outraged reply from Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcot Amory. The Labor program, said Heathcot Amory, is "irresponsible," could only result in "huge increase of public expenditure, sharp rise in taxation, and a return to inflation with severe danger to our balance of payments...
...spotlight, because Venezuela's oil boom has spurred attention-getting public works, Mendoza has been on the rise since he quit high school at 17 ("I was too much in a hurry") to go to work as an office boy. At 28, he owned a thriving construction import business, and his interests were gushing out like Venezuela's oil. He expanded into a 3,000-acre dairy farm, three cement plants (which produce half the national supply), pulp and paper products, insurance, a paint factory, a giant finance company. As he prospered. Mendoza took care...
...stayed quietly on the Onassis superyacht, anchored off the Greek coast, until the soprano decided she was having a "sentimental crisis." Off she flew on Onassis' lumbering DC-4 to give a concert in Bilbao, Spain. Sang Callas: "Unexpected things have happened, and the only remedy is to rise above them." To the disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then it was back to her sailor-man, who was having something of a crisis himself...
...rate of $38 billion and a 1958 slump low of $30 billion); many crystal-bailers see a pace close to $40 billion in 1960. "Here's what will happen next," says Vice President Russell H. Metzner of Cleveland's Central National Bank. "The cost of living will rise. Hard goods will be immediately affected because a bigger share of consumer spending will go to the cost-of-living items [mostly soft goods]. And then we will have a drastic reduction in inventories and capital expenditures. I expect to see the downturn in late 1960 or early...
...journalist (onetime London Times correspondent) turned military historian (Operation Sea Lion-TIME, July 22, 1957), does not dwell overlong on the corrupt, decaying empire of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who was only too glad to turn the wrath of the masses from herself. Instead, he concentrates on the rise and fall of the hordes of shrieking peasants who called themselves "Fists of Righteous Harmony" ("Boxers," said a missionary, giving the rebellion its name). Against them for eight weeks stood a handful of isolated foreigners, including some of the great names of future history...