Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relax it." He freed firms doing business abroad from all taxes on their overseas trading operations, removed some unpopular domestic levies, e.g., the 1955 "pots and pans" tax and the "Suez shilling" on gasoline, lowered others and granted graduated income-tax exemptions for children to help their parents pay higher school bills. But Thorneycroft's boldest move was to single out for relief the 300,000 Britons-mostly engineers, executives, scientists-who earn more than ?2,000 ($5,600) a year and therefore pay a surtax on top of their regular income tax. It was the first break surtax...
Astronomers all over the world were readying their telescopes this week for Comet Arend-Roland. which is about to make an appearance from behind the glare of the sun. This week it should become visible just after sunset, low in the northwest. It will soon climb higher in the sky, but since it will be moving away from the sun, it will gradually lose brilliance, become invisible to the naked eye about June...
...budget the President has submitted is geared to continuing prosperity at a rate six percent higher in this calendar year than in 1956," Byrd said. "His budget also takes into account a proposed 600-million-dollar increase in revenues through a boost in postal rates, which Congress might not approve...
...number of applications for admissions to Radcliffe was seven percent higher this year than last, Miss Constance E. Ballou, dean of admissions, disclosed yesterday...
...that cannot afford to keep a lobbyist in the capital. Actually, the facts speak more eloquently on behalf of the troubled small businessman than any lobbyist could. More small concerns went out of business last year than in any year since 1940; bankruptcies this year are running higher than in 1956. Small business' share of total manufacturing sales slipped from...