Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was little festive mood in the yellow-walled Defense Ministry. There sat Premier Kassem, who had let the Communists in his entourage rise to power in order to prevent Nasserites from taking over his revolution. Now at last he saw the need to prevent the Communists from taking over the revolution in turn, and sought to create a third group in Iraq loyal to him instead of to Cairo or Moscow. Against the advice of the Communists, who cry for blood vengeance, Kassem last week continued to release political prisoners from jail, and declared an amnesty for all those...
...record annual rate of $376.2 billion in May, $3 billion above the month before. The Labor Department added that spendable earnings (income after federal taxes) also reached a record in May of $81.03 a week for a factory worker with three dependents. The department also reported a May rise of 0.1% in the consumer price index to a record 124% of the 1947-49 price average. But Bureau Price Chief H. E. Riley said that the change was an expected seasonal rise that has taken place every year but one since 1947. Though further small rises may take place...
...Spurring the industry's hopes is the rising level of U.S. consumer spending. Department-store sales in the week ending June 13 were 3% over last year, despite a sales-crippling newspaper strike in St. Louis. Fairchild News Service's own survey, covering specialty shops as well as department stores, showed a sales jump of 4% over the preceding week, the tenth such weekly rise. Another big reason for confidence is that manufacturers this year took pains to study their market. Many sent their designers on nationwide tours to sound out stores and shoppers on the kind...
British economists doubt that exports will continue to rise at their current rate, fear that the trade balance may turn around again when raw material prices rise and import demand in Britain picks up as a result of economic expansion. But Britain is clearly out of its balance-of-trade crisis, and the outlook ahead-in the best British tradition-is solid without being spectacular...
...jazz saxophonist during his knockabout days, has managed this much. His novel is cast in the form of a onetime saxman's fond, moody reminiscence of the hard-blowing early '303. Jogged by a telephone call from one of his old partners, the narrator recalls the rise and fall of the combo they formed. The group begins as a trio, built around an astonishingly good young trumpeter. Then the saxman finds a pianist at a Harlem rent party, and the trio sounds even better as a quartet. Bookings pick up, and with the addition of two more saxophonists...