Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chosen with regard to social as well as journalistic attainment, lent a decorum to match the Transcript's antique presses (which had been named after members of the owning family). Until 1936 the single elevator was still operated by steam. (Said a visiting Englishman as the elevator inched upward: "Our trees grow faster than this...
...This newer assertiveness has been encountered in places by a recrudescence of anti-Negro feeling. But more significant is the fact that in both North and South, white elements of society have welcomed the movement of the Negro upward, believing that America will be a much more wholesome nation if the Negro can contribute his brains and muscles to the welfare of society...
...Seriously, when are otherwise sane Americans going to graduate from fifth-grade history of 1775, into a realistic world of today where the bulwark of everything priceless in mankind's struggle upward to attainment of sacred privileges rests precariously on "a tight little island's" defiance of the most obscene attack on them ever witnessed...
...this buying power sent department-store sales up 19% (over 1940) throughout the U. S. Prices continued creeping upward. Retailers and wholesalers bought ahead, piled up big inventories without a qualm...
...they had not counted on the devastating stalemate of blockade and counter-blockade. Their total foreign trade, instead of breaking upward, sheered off. Surpluses piled up. Fortnight ago, in Montevideo, their delegates sat down at a round table to figure a way out. Present were representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia; as observers, the U. S., Chile and Peru. The meeting called itself the first Regional Conference of the Plata River...