Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard College sought $82.5 million for the College and for some needs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In the early publicity about the drive, the President insisted that it was intended not just to raise money for Harvard, but to demonstrate the needs of all American higher education. By giving to Harvard, it was practically argued, one supports all American colleges and universities...
...partly it was the sheer weight of fact: farm prosperity, signs that the recession is easing, realization that the Government faces a deficit of $10 billion or more in the fiscal year ahead, overseas rumblings showing that 1958 is no year to retreat toward isolationism by building higher tariff fences and slashing foreign aid. After pondering the facts, plus the sentiments of the voters back home, many a congressional man in motion switched direction to follow his followers...
...steamer and airplane, and because the territory produces so little for ships and planes to haul profitably back to the States, the freight charges boost retail prices to alarming levels. A Seattle dollar shrinks about 19? in Juneau, 29? in Anchorage, 35? in Fairbanks. Wages consequently run 15-40% higher than comparable Stateside payrolls, and that is a factor that holds back large-scale investment from Stateside in Alaska's potential...
...nation could then be called to pronounce freely and in sovereign fashion on the constitutional reform that the higher interests of democracy demand...
...Francis Jr., 43, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Personnel and Reserve (since April 1957), Houston lawyer, longtime behind-the-scenes power in Texas Republican politics, World War II intelligence captain on Ike's staff; of a heart attack after playing tennis; in Washington, D.C. An advocate of higher military pay scales placing "major emphasis on achievement rather than on total years of service," Francis argued for the measure before a Senate subcommittee. It was enacted into law last week...