Word: soares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hands for the Looms. Every year Dionne has trouble with his hands when summer comes. They quit and go back to the farm, that costs him money, for looms stop clanking, and production costs soar. Considering this problem, Dionne recently had an idea. Why not bring in D.P.s from Europe? He persuaded the Government at Ottawa to declare that "there is a shortage of textile workers in Canada" and to waive immigration rules. Then he headed for Europe...
...effect, would probably stay put or even decline. ¶ General Motors was the first to raise prices. It boosted car and truck prices an even $100 all around. Ford said he would hold the line. Chrysler Corp., which has started to make money, said nothing. ¶ Housing costs would soar over ceiling prices all down the line. But black markets and many bottlenecks would be ended and prices of some items-i.e., nails-would drop under black market prices. ¶ Electrical appliances, such as small motors, would go up slightly, though General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson...
...death of OPA had started it. Canada had upped the value of its currency because it feared that i) prices in the U.S. would soar much faster than they had (see Prices), 2) the U.S. dollar would be worth much less. Last week, Sweden hastily followed Canada's lead. It also raised the value of its currency, boosting the krona from 23.82 U.S. cents to 27.77 cents, a 14% increase. Both nations were guessing that the U.S. would have 10 to 14% more inflation than it now has. There were reports that Argentina, and several other nations, would soon...
Atomic Doodling. So far, only a few scientists connected with the Manhattan Project have been allowed to experiment freely with the pile's products. But outsiders, letting their imaginations soar, have dreamed up many uses: one possibility, a radioactive lamp that might glow for months or years...
...told, twelve U.S. airlines have already announced prospective new plane purchases of some $520,000,000. (Book value in 1943 of all domestic airline planes: $32,500,000.) Before long the total of new planes on order may soar to a stratospheric $750,000,000. To pay for these new planes, U.S. airlines have total working capital and equipment purchase funds of some $200,000,000. But no one expects that they will take all the planes now on order. Many a line is ordering more planes than it actually intends to buy, to make certain that it misses...