Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holmes, the state's first Democratic governor in 18 years, harnessed himself happily to a newly Democratic assembly, but was still waiting after 109 ballots for the deadlocked (15-15) senate to organize itself. Holmes let it be known immediately that he will be pulling strong on higher teacher pay, state government reorganization. One of his first acts was to toss the fake log out of the fireplace in his executive suite, replacing it with something more suitable for a timber-producing state: real logs...
...business-past and future, as well as present? Does it expose him to ideas and theories as well as facts and situations? Does it, in short, give the graduate the intellectual tools that will produce not only his well-tooted salary, but also his continuing interest in values and higher responsibilities of business...
Among the individual numerical titans of higher education, the University of California leads the field with a total enrollment of more than 40,000 students, and the University of Minnesota follows closely with some 36,000 collegians...
Probers are checking charges by the Better Business Bureau that some drivers over the age of 25 are paying the higher rates set for drivers under 25. Involved are the insurance subsidiaries of Commercial Credit Co., Associates Investment Co., Pacific Finance Corp., C.I.T. Financial Corp...
DIAMOND SHORTAGE is bringing price boost by South Africa's monopolistic De Beers syndicate. Retail diamond jewelry prices will rise about 10% this year, following 5% hike in 1956, and industrial diamonds will go even higher. Demand is outstripping supply largely because U.S., which buys two-thirds of world's diamonds, last year imported peak $159 million worth of gem diamonds...