Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s unemployment rally in Washington last month. Labor Secretary James Mitchell promised to publicly eat his hat if October figures did not drop unemployment to 3,000,000 and raise employment to 67 million. Still to go: six months, a rise of 2,000,000 employed and a cut of 625,000 unemployed. It began to look as though Jim Mitchell's hat was safe...
...know that the U.S. population will increase to well over 200 million," said LIFE'S Publisher Andrew Heiskell last week, looking toward the 1960s. "We expect real income to rise 4% per annum, with the result that an additional 6,000,000 families will have incomes of $5,000 or over." To keep pace with that national growth, LIFE (circ. base: 6,000,000) last week announced its plans for moving into...
Health fees would not rise under terms of the proposal, now under study by insurance firms. All students, however, would receive insurance protection for prolonged illness, with coverage beyond the scope of the present plan...
...developments, such as more rigid plastics and aluminum resistant to chlorine, come on the market, the wave of pool construction is expected to rise rapidly. Says Robert M. Hoffman, publisher of Swimming Pool Age: "In five to ten years pool prices will be reduced to between $1,000 and $1,500, and there will be no limit to who will...
...Toynbee, an astronomer of the past who views history as a multitude of ever-turning cultural constellations, the rise and fall of Greco-Roman civilization is merely an episode lasting roughly from 1000 B.C. to 600 A.D. Toynbee traces the course of Hellenism's bright star lucidly, a little offhandedly, treating it largely as an object lesson for the present. Hellenism's central characteristic was the worship of man-exemplified by the ludicrously human crew of Olympian divinities and, later, by a more sophisticated secular humanism. This man worship, which has thrilled so many historians of Greece, chills...