The U.S. refused to accept Jewish refugees even as Nazi persecution rose and World War II loomed.
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They raised massive amounts of money to fund investment and technology research at an extraordinary scale -- indeed, U.S. spending on the war rose from 1.6% of GDP in 1940 to 37% just five years later.
Through the Depression and the war Sidney rose steadily up the ranks, acquiring board seats and corporate contacts.
Between the start and finish of the Korean war, American share prices rose by 28%.
Every year on Veterans Day , we baby boomers look around and see fewer and fewer members of the Greatest Generation--our parents and grandparents who rose en mass to fight a terrible war and keep us safe.
By telling the U.S. to embrace the PLO, Israel found itself without recourse when -- in the space of just a few weeks from the euphoric signing ceremony in the White House Rose Garden -- the PLO resumed its war against Israel, transforming the areas Israel had transferred to its control into the largest terror training bases in the world.
After the war, he became a barrister and rose to be deputy chief justice.
Since the end of the war, the members of the White Rose have become celebrated figures, as German society has searched for positive role models from the Nazi period.
Hasan, who declined to give his last name, was a furniture factory worker in Aleppo but fled the city after the war intensified, work dried up and prices sharply rose.
During World War II, from 1941 to 1945, the Dow rose to 174.
More than half of the warming during the twentieth century occurred prior to the post-World War II economic boom, yet atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions rose minimally during this time.
Its scribes included Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and Winston Churchill (who first rose to minor fame by escaping from a prisoner-of-war camp on the day before he was to have been released).
He rose to prominence as a young theologian in the wake of World War II, calling for modernization in the church, and decades later cemented his influence as the Vatican's chief of doctrine, championing church tradition and reining in Catholics who challenged it.
Obama rose to power, in part, because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.
During World War II, he served in the Philippines and Japan and rose to the rank of staff sergeant.
It was language Palin used when accepting the nomination on Wednesday night when she spoke of the war on terrorism and it was language used by Palin's current pastor, Mike Rose, at Juneau Christian Center.
Mr Greenlaw says the closest precedent was in 1968, when individual, corporate, excise and payroll taxes collectively rose by the equivalent of 3.1% of GDP, mostly to pay for the Vietnam war and to damp down inflation.
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood together in the Rose Garden for the last time Thursday in a news conference that was largely a defense of the Iraq war, an event that has shaped their common legacy.
If there is any silver lining, it is that while the recession was a year old in December, its first half was not especially deep: net GDP actually rose in the first half, and the downturn is actually a bit milder than the median post-war recession after 12 months.
Under the post-World War II gold standard, the unemployment rate averaged only 4.7% a year and never rose above 7%.
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May has been a month of goodbyes in Australia - Claude Choules, the last living link to combat in World War I and the oldest Australian, the actor Bill Hunter, the Aboriginal world boxing champion Lionel Rose, the spin bowler and coach Terry Jenner.
She was regularly interrogated about her role in the White Rose, but eventually released without charge - a stroke of luck she puts down to her status as a war widow, and to the likelihood that the Gestapo was hoping she would lead them to other co-conspirators.
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