Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, this spring, Fredericks was ready with a one-twelfth scale model of his design: the nude figure of a young man, with one arm stretched upward. Seltzer, who keeps the Scripps-Howard Press a proper "family newspaper," was not perturbed at the statue's absence of fig leaf, and the Fine Arts Committee of the City Planning Commission liked the model. When the Press ran a "progress report" on the memorial, with a front-view photograph of the Fredericks model, only two readers felt strongly enough to write protests...
Hurriedly, the Press asked Sculptor Fredericks for his interpretation of the controversial work. Explained he: "It is essentially religious . . . The statue of the youth, reaching upward toward his God, is a symbol of the souls of the men who fought and died. It represents their hope for a world free from war, pestilence and fear." Last week, all further work on the statue was temporarily stopped. If public opinion insisted, Editor Seltzer was prepared to edit the statue. Said he: "We don't want to impose anything on the people they don't want...
...three-way purchasing agreement between G.M., U.S. Rubber and itself, thus freezing out competing suppliers, e.g., G.M. had at one time agreed to buy at least 50% of its rubber products from U.S. Rubber. This, it is charged, was later revised upward, with different G.M. divisions agreeing to take different percentages of U.S. Rubber products...
...same way, many a company which had been trying to discover the bottom on its "back-to-normal" slide seemed to have found it-and to be starting the upward climb again. In industrial alcohol, a basic raw material for many manufacturers, the surplus had caused prices to toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft...
...Mindful of middle-aged bridegrooms, the Greater New York Safety Council issued instructions for carrying brides across thresholds: "The correct way...is to bend the knees, keep the body upright, take a firm grip...and push upward with the leg muscles. Do not try to lift too much weight." The council added that this would also be handy for lifting barrels and furniture...