Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists, said Lo, wanted to revise upward the 1-to-5 ratio of Red troops to Government troops in Manchuria, agreed upon last February. Marshall was furious with Lo for telling the press that Marshall had said he would guarantee an agreement in 24 hours if the Communists would clearly state their demands. Chou, who hopes to keep the situation as fluid as possible, was equally furious because loquacious Lo had revealed a specific Red demand...
...easily won the hit-&-run attacks on price control in the past, was now running into something like a pitched battle. Moreover, in price control, as in most things, Canada was influenced by what went on south of the border. Price rises in the U.S. had exerted an upward pull on Canadian prices. Now Canadians uneasily eyed the proposed emasculation of OPA. If that happened, they would have an even harder job keeping the lid on inflation in Canada...
Arkham House, publishers, wrote from Sauk City, Wis., to ask whether he had anything on hand. The presiding genius of Arkham House is 3 7-year-old Sauk City-born August Derleth, an avid writer of supernatural tales himself. Derleth has brought out upward of a dozen books under the Arkham imprint, all of them dealing with ghostly matters. Among his latest books, under another imprint: Who Knocks?, a Derleth-edited anthology subtitled Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur...
...Cash. Last fortnight the Quebec Government gave Hollinger an exclusive 20-year concession to explore and develop 3,900 square miles of Ungava directly across the border from its Labrador concession (see map). Hollinger and a U.S. associate, the iron mining firm of M. A. Hanna, agreed to spend upward of $300 million...
...chance to listen to music. His wife, Eliza, was a minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But like most of the local Quakers, Eliza believed that music was "a popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when Amanda Prentis hurdled the high notes of The Star Spangled Banner...