Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reason No. 2 was a smaller city revolt -small businessmen angry about tight money; housewives disturbed about higher food prices and inflation-expressed in terms of time for a change. Proxmire increased his vote over 1954 in Milwaukee County by 7%, breached G.O.P. strongholds in the suburbs. Smallest Democrat gains: in Milwaukee's two predominantly Negro wards...
...strikers, variously hit by the economy's contradictions, have more than higher wages on their minds. Packinghouse workers demanded that the government import more Argentine cattle to provide work. A group of Montevideo doctors struck for duty-free automobiles. Teachers-college students struck for preference in teaching appointments. There is a growing tendency toward brief general strikes in support of particular union's demands. Communists, tolerated by the government, energetically back every strike, prolonging each as long as possible...
Health insurance, a boon to no million people in the U.S., is regarded by more and more doctors as a paper-spewing ogre. Reason: the torrent of technical information requested by insurance forms is cutting into doctors' valuable time for treating patients, leading directly to higher costs for medical care...
...Chevrolet left the competition far behind. To win its current lead in 1957, Ford spent a staggering $608 million on retooling. And to fight it out again with Chevrolet next year, Ford will be forced to spend almost as much-all of which, added to other inflated costs, means higher prices...
...Icelandic is negotiating for a sizable loan from the Export-Import Bank to buy new equipment, hopes to have two turboprop airliners on its Far North routes by 1959. Since faster, bigger planes will bring higher revenues, Icelandic expects to keep bargain fares for years to come. Says Craig: "They call us cut-rate, and I'm proud...