Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Likoff fed volunteers a test meal containing radioactive fat. In normal subjects the fat concentration in the blood reached its peak in six hours, almost disappeared in 24 hours. In subjects with high blood levels of cholesterol, or with coronary disease, or with both, the fat reached a higher concentration in the blood, and much more of it remained there 24 hours later. The researchers' conclusion: such patients have a biochemical abnormality that keeps their systems from using fats properly...
...itself protect legal rights. "There is no moral right to property, to liberty, to life itself, in the absence of good will. The dilemma of the state is that this condition, as a moral condition, cannot be legally administered." The power of the state must come from a law higher than itself. "It is clearly not the destiny of the secular state to render the functions of a religious community superfluous. On the contrary, with the advance of a technical civilization, a church in our broad sense . . . instead of tending to wither away, becomes increasingly necessary...
...Those who looked beyond the car loadings could find considerable encouraging news. Retail trade is still at a higher level than in 1956, while personal income continues at a rate of $346.5 billion, $15.4 billion higher than last year. Detroit's automakers built 129,170 cars last week, the most since June and nearly 10% more than during the same week last year. And strong earnings reports kept rolling in from dozens of big and little companies. In electronics and appliances, General Electric, Motorola, Westinghouse, all had better nine-month earnings than last year. Oil companies such as Cities...
Some cynics professed to see in the merger proposal a dramatic attempt to get the railroads' case for higher rates and other changes before the public, but the move was nonetheless a good indication of the unhealthy state of the two roads involved. Many other U.S. railroads are doing well financially (see box), but they are not afflicted with the peculiar problems of the Central and Pennsy: short-haul runs that require numerous stations and facilities and heavy and unprofitable commuter loads in populous big-city areas...
...checks prices of new houses, interest rates on mortgages and home improvements. But it ignores the do-it-yourself trend, assumes that labor is hired at union wages to paint the dining room, sand the floors or reshingle the roof. Other changes in the index do not reflect higher prices, but higher standards of living. The index now includes dinners out, hotel and motel rates on vacation trips, the expense of keeping more informal clothes (in addition to work clothes and Sunday best), plus outlay for sports equipment, whisky and even from time to time a lawyer to look after...