Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also boosted excise taxes on automobiles, whisky and cigarettes. Three times since then, the increases have been scheduled to die automatically unless renewed, on each occasion have been extended another year. Last week, accepting Ike's word that all of the $3 billion brought in by the higher tax rates is already earmarked in the President's budget, members by voice-vote overwhelmingly decided to keep them still another year, sent the measure to the Senate, where there is only feeble agitation for tax cuts to small businesses...
Despite such hazards, Indians could boast that they had successfully staged the world's biggest free election. By the time the polls closed last week, 51% of India's 193 million voters had turned out. This time, moreover, the percentage of women voters was far higher than it was in the general election of 1952. In Allahabad and other Moslem centers, women in purdah not only queued up outside voting booths but docilely permitted special investigators to peek under their veils to make sure that no male ringers were sneaking in. The only serious sex-linked problem...
...recent weeks political prosewriters have been in greater demand, at higher salaries, than ever before. With countywide primaries as well as Jersey City and Hoboken elections set for April...
...prison. The courtyard adjoining the Brooklyn headquarters was jammed with Lubavitcher men at benches and tables, many of them in long black coats or full jackets and large-brimmed black hats. Some wore the gartel, a black silk cord bound around the waist to symbolize the distinction between the "higher" and "lower" parts of man. As soon as blue-eyed, black-bearded Menachem Mendel arrived, he was handed a bottle of whisky, which he passed to outstretched hands below him, and almost immediately bottles of whisky and paper cups appeared on all the tables...
Vice President Nixon ended his African goodwill tour in Tunis, Tunisia, yesterday, convinced American prestige is higher than he had anticipated in all the eight nations he visited during his 22-day trip...