Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of peace is high. Yet the price of war is higher and is paid in different coin-with the lives of our youth and the devastation of our cities. The road to this disaster could easily be paved with the good intentions of those blindly striving to save the money that must be spent as the price of peace. I know that you would not wish your Government to take such a reckless gamble. I do not intend that your Government take that gamble...
...price of clothing went down a bit, but just about everything else, from food to laundry soap, went up. And so that restless thermometer of inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' retail price index, crept higher again in April. It was the eighth monthly rise in a row, bringing the index to a record high of 119.3 (the 1947-49 average = 100). The new mark was .4 above the March figure and a notable 4.7 above early 1956, when the index, after three steady years, started edging upward. Forecast for May: higher...
...extend to each employee at Harvard University a cordial invitation to join with over sixteen million American workingmen in pursuit for higher wages, improved working conditions and our just share in the prosperity of the nation...
They admit that MIT wage rates are "slightly" higher than those at Harvard, but point out that the University lacks the income from government contracts which make possible higher scales. "And don't forget that our wage agreement comes up for revision at the end of June," adds Thomas F. Stone, president of the HUERA...
...working classes, it is a "mug's game." Nor do Amis and Co. propose to rally round their presumed benefactors, the Socialists, for whose triumph their predecessors fought so hard: "The Welfare State, indeed, is notoriously unpopular with intellectuals. It was all very well to press for higher working-class wages in the old days, but now-why, some of them are actually better off than we are ourselves...