Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economist. In London, convicted of shoplifting, Archibald Parfitt asked the magistrate for "all possible leniency," explained: "There is an upward trend in the nation's prosperity, and I wish to share...
...technological breakthroughs have sharply reduced the ranks of blue-collar (i.e., usually hourly paid) workers, who make up 85% of the U.S. union membership. But in the total U.S. working force, the blue-collars were outnumbered by white-collar workers (25 million to 25.5 million) by 1957, and the trend was accelerated by the recession. Unions have had comparatively little success in recruiting the new army of technical and service workers. If it does not recruit them, says Kassalow, "organized labor would be lucky to maintain its present membership of 17 or 18 million over the next decade. It would...
...over the country hack writers and local newspaper wits are turning out their predictions for 1959. As every reader knows, these essays are uniformly hilarious, because there are so many riotous things one can say about things one knows nothing about. The CRIMSON, refusing to bow to this bourgeois trend, herewith publishes its serious forecast of things to come...
Dave Skeels and Hal Pouser of the Crimson lost to D. C. Auble and G. S. Willis in the 123 and 130 lb. divisions, as Cornell jumped out to a 6-0 lead. The varsity's John Watkins reversed the trend by defeating R.E. Jones of the Redmen at 137, but Jim Estabrook dropped a close 5-4 decision to J.E. Carter in the 147 lb. class, and the Crimson trailed...
Incentives of Cost. Having made many concessions to a sullen peasantry to get work out of them, the Soviet boss now finds them living too high on the hog-a trend that is even more marked in Communist Poland, where, one economist says, "the cities are working for the peasants...