Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Reserve's policy is aimed against inflation, how does Martin explain the fact that the cost of living is at an all-time high? "We have never said our policy has been 100% effective and we never will . . . But the real test is how much higher those prices would have risen if the law of supply and demand in the market place had not been permitted to operate to dampen somewhat the rate of spending and proceed to move in the direction of increased savings...
...Reuther vowed that in 1958 his U.A.W. would "win the highest economic wage concessions we have ever won . . . We cannot convince General Motors to part with its millions by pious platitudes. We've got to have a wallop." The surest results of Reuther's walloping, if successful: higher cost of living, more inflation...
...Charlie Wilson's order the Army had in fact fired the Jupiter. Reported Editor Bergaust: the "Jupiter C," a three-stage rocket test device, whooshed from its Florida launching site in September, streaked an astounding 3,300 miles, reaching an altitude of 680 miles at 15,000 m.p.h.-higher and faster and possibly farther than any missile has ever before flown. Pentagon brass studiously avoided comment about Bergaust's disclosure...
...HOME LOANS will be eased by new Veterans Administration rule. V.A. will allow lenders to make tentative loan commitments with understanding that loan can carry an interest rate higher than, the 4½½;% legal maximum, provided Congress raises maximum before deal is closed...
...smarter and cheaper way would be to let business do the job; the military should follow the trend in private business, where many firms no longer try to maintain such equipment as trucks or electronic machines, but rent the equipment, let outsiders maintain it. And though private wages are higher than service pay, the difference is not so great, considering the cost of training and supporting a serviceman for several years...