Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oxford University Institute of Statistics. These show, that in the years 1938-47, the real income after taxes of the British middle class* dropped 9%, while that of the working class rose 7%. To hold its part of the middle-class vote, the Labor government checked this trend in 1948, but the Oxford report expects it to be resumed: "The movement toward equality is quite noticeable," it concludes...
...Furthermore, they want the American story and, despite their shortage of foreign exchange, are doing their best to make it available to their citizens via TIME, LIFE, and other American publications. Apparently, our readers feel the same way about us because our circulation continues to rise (against the prevailing trend in Western Europe) and our subscribers are renewing at a rate unusually high for us or any other publication...
Hungarian songwriters caught on to this sort of thing so quickly that the Arts Council had to issue another warning against an "opportunistic trend...
...bang editorials against the corruption of Hollywood, he ended up on the wrong end of a $10,200 libel judgment against The Churchman. But in the late '305, his zeal, which was also sharply anti-Rome, began to find new, political channels of expression. The details of the trend were laid down in a 3,000-word document produced last week by Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected list" of 25 "Communist front or Communist organizations" to which Dr. Shipler lent his name between...
...York Daily News had good reason to sniff a new trend; its massive circulation was slipping a bit. The News was still the biggest U.S. paper (2,175,000 daily, 4,500,000 Sunday). But some of its boldness, impudence and razor-keen sense of what the public wanted had died in 1946 with Founder Joe Patterson. To some longtime News readers, it seemed as though the paper had lost the exact formula for Patterson's magic elixir, and was trying to concoct a substitute. Manhattan newshounds speculated that the editors were even poring over old files in search...