Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beirut, will speak on "The United Arab Republic and the Meaning of Arab Unity." Herold C. Hunt, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, will discuss "A Look at Education in the USSR." And Albert H. Halsey, lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham, England, will lecture on "English Higher Education...
...Only one with a heart of stone could stand unmoved by the trials and tribulations of the American Beats and the English Angries [June 9]. Nor is history likely to forget them either. As long as man stands just a little straighter his head a little higher, in the presence of whines and howls and poor-folks writing, there will always be a place in his memory for the Crybaby Generation...
Chain store sales last month rose sharply, were 5.1% better than 1957. Total sales for 44 big chains so far this year: $6.7 billion, 3.7% higher than last year...
...prices-they looked to be on the way up, too. Both Westinghouse President Mark W. Cresap Jr. and General Electric President Robert Paxton saw little chance of a price cut in appliances, instead talked of price increases forced on the industry by higher labor and material costs. In steel, which picked up speed to a scheduled operating rate of 63.8%, a little price cutting cropped up in the Detroit area, where Great Lakes Steel Corp. chopped prices $2 a ton. But it was strictly a cut to meet local competition and not likely to spread. The industry soon expects...
...plenty of pressure from all sides. London's Economist calls for a 300% hike in the price of gold to bring it in line with other increases, and every miner hopes for a price boost to pay rising costs and improve profits. A more important argument for a higher gold price is that it will help foreign trade. Financial men argue that the world simply does not have enough gold. South Africa's W. J. Busschau, manager of the New Consolidated Gold Fields, Ltd. and one of the world's leading gold experts, argues persuasively that while...