Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real trouble. After paying the Government 30% of earnings under $25,000 and 52% over it small firms have proportionately far less than bigger companies to use for expansion. To escape extinction, more and more smaller firms are forced to merge with bigger companies, thus accelerating the trend towards monopoly. Faced with these facts, almost everyone in Washington agrees that small businessmen deserve a better break...
...physician, Hartung began drawing in infancy, as most children do. But, recalls Hartung, "while the other kids were drawing manikins and animals, I tried to draw thunderstorms." Later on he filled the margins of his schoolbooks with doodles that seemed best to express his feelings. Outwardly, Hartung followed the trend of his generation, haunted the museums in his teens admiring Rembrandt, Matthias Grüunewald and El Greco, began painting in the style of Viennese Expressionist Kokoschka...
...third of the average family's expenditures-balanced declines of other prices. And what happened in 1956, when the cost-of-living index zipped up a worrisome 3%, was that non-goods prices kept on rising, while prices of food and manufactured goods reversed their downward trend and inched upward...
...private enterprise, and thus leave the government to run only those which need to exist but cannot be self-sustaining. What he does hope to do is to eliminate obsolete enti, organize the rest into one coherent and responsible whole. Even so modest an achievement would reverse a dangerous trend...
...eliminate one half course in favor of independent study. In the fall of 1955, 19 students used it, and in the spring of last year, 17. Nine participated last fall, and while 20 are now under the program, there is no sign of any consistent upward trend, or any especially meaningful number using the program...