Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Darul Islam fanatics, who want to set up a theocratic Moslem state by force of arms, took over most of the mountainous area southwest of Bandung in Java; a separatist republic was established in the South Moluccas; the Amboinese, who had long supplied native soldiers to the Dutch, rose in rebellion; the people of Atjeh in Northern Sumatra, who fight everybody, fought the government...
Karl Schirdewan, long considered Ulbricht's heir apparent, rose to back up Oelssner. What had Ulbricht's policies actually accomplished, he asked, but the alienation of "the bourgeoisie, the youth, the intelligentsia, the housewives, and 2,000,000 refugees?" Ulbricht replied by kicking Oelssner and Schirdewan out of the Politburo...
...policy of easing money seemed to be getting results. Last week several New York banks lopped ½% off time-deposit rates, dropped them to 2% or 2½%. As interest rates edged down, demand for credit picked up. Loans by New York City banks rose $152 million last week, more than twice the gain of the same 1957 week...
...million to $843.6 million-the first time in eleven years that G.M. has been dethroned. And some of the biggest companies showed earnings gains for the fourth quarter, despite the recession. > General Motors' yearly profits dipped to $2.99 a share v. $3.02 in 1956, but fourth-quarter earnings rose...
...General Electric's 1957 net jumped 16% to $2.84 a share, although sales went up only 6%. Earnings for the final quarter alone rose 21% over the year-ago level to 74? a share...