Word: skyrocketing
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...rally took on an educational aspect when the cheer leaders introduced a new skyrocket cheer and a new locomotive yell, but the receptive audience had them completely mastered on the second time through. Then the band and the crowd collaborated to make the traditional football songs echo to the Square and the Yard...
...Drop the OPA and watch such scarce items as men's suits, topcoats and dress shirts skyrocket in price. You say that competition-not Government regulation-is a factor in preventing inflation. The mentioned apparel is so scarce that it would be asinine to believe that competitors would immediately slash prices when they know they can all get and maintain higher prices. True, after a period of time, supply equaling demand, prices will take care of themselves without regulation. But in the interim the consumer would take a sound beating...
...years of war have done more to skyrocket British factory wages than decades of peace. Last week the Ministry of Labor announced that average wages had gone up 76% (men's, 73%; women's, 94%). The take-home result: average pay for men in British factories is now $23.80 a week; for women...
Huth calculated that immediately after the war the U.S. would want eight to ten million receiving sets; Europe, five million; Latin America, two to three million; Asia, two million ("but Asia's demand may skyrocket within a few years to 20 million sets"). "The European industry," he continued, "will be unable to cover this demand. English factories will be busy filling home orders; the German industry will be badly wrecked by air raids; and the biggest European exporter, Holland's Philips' works in Eindhoven, must be rebuilt. France and Italy [will be out of] international competition...
...hell with the American flag." He denied it, but admitted in court that he thought the Russian Revolution had been a good idea. It was Sidis, now become a Marxist. Sentenced to 18 months in the House of Correction, he appealed and the case was dropped. Then, like a skyrocket, he sank out of sight...