Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys at Winchester have from time immemorial been obliged to take a dip in a tubful of cold water before breakfast-hangers-back being dunked forcibly. Ever since Mr. Gaitskell's rise to notoriety, there has been a rumor prevalent at his old school that it was his treatment in that institution which led to his subsequent quaint opinions about capitalists and, inter alia, the education of their progeny...
Hello & Goodbye. As the hours passed, that vitality began to bubble and rise like an awakening volcano. In downtown Honolulu (est. pop. 311,000), impromptu motorcades crisscrossed the crowded streets, as passengers happily shouted campaign cries and drivers leaned heavily on their horns, all drenched with the celebrated spirit of aloha, that flavorsome. catchall Hawaiian term that means peace, warmth, kindness, hello and goodbye, and good luck. And this time, even aloha had an added special flavor injected by the general awareness that Hawaii was on the threshold of a new epoch, sharpened by the fact that there were...
...owed to private contractors by the government, and clamped down on tax evaders. The one place where his regime has fallen short is in the battle against inflation. In the new President's first six months, living costs jumped 22.2%. largest increase since 1955. Alessandri argues that the rise was premeditated; before launching his austerity program, he raised wages an average 32.5%, because "it was a social and political impossibility to permit rising living costs to be thrown totally on the shoulders of the working classes." From now on, says Alessandri, "the rhythm of inflation will slow down...
...utilities' production to the index base. The rest of the change was due to improvements in measuring industries already included in the index. Under the revised index, industrial output of consumer goods has risen at an annual rate of 3.8% during the past decade, v. a 3.2% rise shown by the unrevised index. The U.S. population has grown at the rate of 1.7% per year...
This was the good news behind last week's report from the President's Council of Economic Advisers that U.S. economic activity in the second quarter climbed to a record yearly rate of $483.5 billion. Even the Government's economists were surprised at the rise of $13.3 billion from the last quarter, $49 billion up from a year ago. They had hoped that the U.S. economy would show enough strength to reach the $500 billion mark by mid-1960. But the economy has snapped back from the recession-and hurtled on-faster than the most glowing optimists...