Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Challenge to Labor. Nathan's unsurprising findings and explosive conclusions were these: although hourly wage rates have increased, labor's real wages have gone down because of 1) elimination of overtime, and 2) rising living costs (up nearly 20% since January 1945). If the present trend continues, he said, a wage increase of 23% will be necessary to bring real wages back to the January 1945 level...
...Hollywood has one noticeable current trend, it is toward independent production (TIME, Aug. 5). Dozens of restless writers, directors and producers are striking out on their own, feeling that they can make better movies away from the too-highly organized bureaucracy of big studios. An estimated 50% of next year's 300-odd pictures will be turned out by some 75 independent producers. Not one of these independents looks more brightly promising than Liberty Films, whose first offering is It's a Wonderful Life...
Union reading tastes are also tainted with a sexual flavor and pink hue, as may be noted from monthly sellouts of Esquire and The Nation. Apparently contrary to the liberal arts trend shown in University course popularity figures, this scientific age of wonders retains a strong grip on the technically-minded Yardlings who avidly devour all procurable copies of Amazing Science when it makes its monthly appearance...
Reflecting perhaps a general trend. The Dartmouth would like to state at this time that it holds no brief for the editorial policy of The Sun. For the benefit of little girls and little boys in Hanover, White River Junction, Lebanon and Norwich, we categorically deny the actual presence of a Santa Claus. There is no Santa Claus, there never has been one, and there never will...
...before hysterical cries of inefficiency and indifference are bandied about, a closer glimpse at the picture might be appropriate. Survey of the dental situation in the Boston area would show that the University's problem is merely a symptom of a general trend. Throughout New England, throughout the entire nation, the tale of woe seems to be the same--overworked dentists and doctors, overcrowded hospitals, everywhere besieged by long waiting lines...