Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mountains for Sale. The markets Canada is likely to find for its wheat look encouraging, too, should help eat into the mountainous stockpiles of surplus grain. The Canadian Wheat Board reported that exports rose last year to 316 million bu.-highest in five years-leaving a carryover of 614,800,000 bu. on hand at the start of the new crop year, Aug. 1. This year the stockpile should shrink considerably...
...forgotten the resilience of my own race. Britain sparkles with optimism. London is a city with new buildings brushing shoulders with the old ..." Novelist Shute-an aeronautical engineer whose full name is Nevil Shute Norway-was sparkling with optimism too. The new, noncontroversial The Rainbow and the Rose was wallowing in the wet black ink after a prepublication sale of 100,000 copies...
This year, for the first time since World War II, the increase in U.S. church membership failed to keep pace with the population increase. The latest edition of the National Council of Churches Yearbook of American Churches, out this week, reports that church and synagogue enrollment rose only 0.9%. while the population increase is estimated at 1.7%. Last year's enrollment jump was 3%-nearly double that of the population rise...
...Gross national product, as finally calculated for the second quarter, rose to an annual rate of $429 billion, a strong $3.2 billion more than the first quarter's $425.8 billion figure...
...Mortgage loans at savings and loan associations rose $1.1 billion in June, the highest total since August...