Word: rosing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jerusalem that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed sprang from Zionist and Socialist dreams in 19th century European ghettos. In their idealistic zeal the pioneers of the new Zion tilled the desert and made it blossom like Isaiah's rose, filled the cities with factories until they hummed like Ezekiel's wheel. In the first decade of independence they brought 915,000 immigrants from Europe, Asia and Africa in a visionary "Ingathering of the Exiles" that more than doubled the tiny republic's population, and made it a dynamic and orderly body politic in sharp contrast with...
...667th factory-a cutlery plant in Gurabo -went into production. For the catalytic $40 million in loans, plant construction and promotion, Fomento got the island $275 million in investment, 80,000 new jobs. Like the moving needles on the instrument board of a climbing plane, all the economic indicators rose...
...revenues from indirect taxes, noncorporate income taxes and other tolls on the speeded economy jumped from $27.5 million to $198 million; each of Fomento's investments stirred a burst of economic activity that ultimately returned to the treasury four times as many dollars as were laid out. Wages rose, now average $1,500 a year...
Artur Rubinstein struck the final chords of a Chopin Polonaise, lifted his grey-fringed head, rose to acknowledge the applause. The audience rose with him. "May he live a hundred years," they sang, and clapped and stamped until he had walked ten times with ramrod dignity from the wings and bowed misty-eyed to the packed hall. After 20 years, 69-year-old Pianist Rubinstein was back in the country of his birth and in the city-Warsaw-where he played his first concert 63 years...
Chain store sales last month rose sharply, were 5.1% better than 1957. Total sales for 44 big chains so far this year: $6.7 billion, 3.7% higher than last year...