Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Excelsior: "Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes...
...believe the day is not too far distant when the English people will, in effect, paraphrase Kipling by saying: The tumult and the shouting rise Let captains and the kings depart...
...shows that 27% of Las Vegas residents are divorced. The illusory Vegas is the one that will be seen by 14 million visitors this year. Like giant mirages created by the heat vapors of the get-rich-quick furnace, the neon-lit, freon-cooled sand castles of The Strip rise amid the cacti and creosote bushes, massive monuments to hedonism. Inside their carpeted, clockless confines, nothing seems real: time stands still, and $100 is just a black gambling chip. This Las Vegas is a jet-age Sodom, a venal demimonde in which the greatest compliment that can be paid...
...drivers of sand, cement and gravel trucks will rise to $266.80 for a 40-hour week by July 1971; on top of that, fringe benefits will go up $44.40. The benefits include a pension plan that allows a Teamster to retire on $400 a month after 20 years of driving, whatever...
...wellhead price of oil has risen hardly at all. Partly because of climbing costs, the number of wildcat wells drilled has declined from 16,200 in 1956 to 8,900 last year. While many other countries are sharply increasing oil production in 1969, U.S. output is expected to rise only...