Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record. Gross national product ($434 billion) and total personal income '($343 billion) surpassed 1956 levels by 5%. At midyear the employment total stood at a new record high of 67.2 million, and the last quarter's "moderate" decline still left employment at 64.4 million, a higher mark than the U.S. reached in any year prior...
Tempers Rise. Even with these restrictions 80% of the voters in last July's Assembly election were Negro. But owing to the loyalty of many backlands Negroes to their white employers, P.L.P. got only six of 29 seats. P.L.P. tempers went higher three weeks ago over Governor Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur's annual appointments to the executive boards that help manage the islands. Negro appointees were in the minority and no Negro was named to the Development Board, which runs the key tourist industry. Hungering for an issue, the union and P.L.P. let the drivers' dispute serve...
LOWER FARM PRICE supports and higher acreage allotments will be asked of Congress by Secretary Benson. He wants authority to boost acreage for basic crops by as much as 50%, and to set price supports between 65% and 90% of parity (current range...
Anderson's race was perhaps the most interesting from a tactical standpoint. The Crimson junior was making his first real start at the 1000-yard distance (he's normally a 600-man) and his failure to finish higher than fifth may be ascribed primarily to his unfamiliarity with the strategy of the longer race...
Within the scientist fields, Pusey calls for emphasis on the fundamentals. He does not believe that "changed circumstances now call for an exaggerated emphasis in higher education on science-- certainly not for exclusive preoccupation with those branches of science which have immediate military and technological significance...