Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-statehooders still found time for apprehension about the problems ahead, e.g., new, higher taxes to pay for state services. Scoffed Anchorage's bewhiskered antistatehood leader, John Manders: "Did you ever see anybody stop a crowd on its way to a hanging? Wait till the honeymoon is over and the taxes arrive...
...listeners and earnings, began a spectacular comeback. Last week radio's listenership was up 8% over last year, 25% over its pre-TV peak in 1947. A record 140 million sets are in use v. 66 million at TV's dawn. Radio's revenues are higher today than they ever were even in radio's so-called heyday, and are expected to total $700 million for this year...
...change bacteria from one true-breeding strain to another, it may have some similar effect on higher animals, including humans. If such a process is discovered, not much DNA will be needed. The entire supply of DNA that could control the heredity of the next generation of the human species (several billion individuals) could be put in a cube one twenty-fifth of an inch on a side...
...CIGARETTE OUTPUT reached a record 446 billion in year ending June 30, up almost 3%, and Agriculture Department predicts higher total in coming year. Consumption averages 120 packs a year per capita...
...when he hit on the idea of selling reprinted newspaper comic sections for a dime. Using the standard comic formula-32 pages, newsprint, four colors, a 10? price tag-Mad was just holding its own when Gaines played a hunch in 1955, switched to semi-slick paper and higher quality black-and-white drawings, upped the price to 25? and promptly had a boffo success. The magazine now clears $43,000 an issue...