Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more men like Henry Earl Diffenderfer-who will "beg if necessary" for the continuation of higher educational opportunities for a fine-spirited citizenry all but crushed by the mighty military machine of the U.S.A.-and our reputation in the Orient would be greatly enhanced...
...around wartime travel restrictions to Europe and receiving, for his trouble, a deep freezer. Also on the deep-freezer list was White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly-convicted only this year of tax fraud conspiracy during his White House days. In 1947 Truman denounced grain speculators for driving prices higher, soon discovered that his personal physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, was one of those speculators, to the tune...
...spheres she always dreamed about. But Ray's reedlike pliancy proves as irritating as Dexter's rocklike immobility. The only way to achieve success, Maggie sees, is to do it on her own and, with the men away in World War II, she does. She leaps ever higher up the dizzy crags of Madison Avenue, until she reaches the pinnacle-her own radio chatter program...
More Rises. Amid this outpouring of bright figures. Washington noted one dark statistic: agricultural prices dropped 3% in the month ended Aug. 15, but were up 2% from August 1955. But other prices, rising on a broad front for the past month, kept going higher. Rises were announced in the prices of office typewriters (5% to 12%), in some truck andconstruction equipment (1.7% to 6%), in the tin plate used for food cans (1.25%). Nevertheless, in August, when most consumer rises went into effect, sales in U.S. department stores were 5% more than the year before...
While many cottonmen cry for higher tariffs or strict import quotas, the Administration is determined not to give in. Textilemen want protection, demand restrictions on Japan, which is "flooding" domestic markets with cheap finished cotton goods, forcing the closing of some U.S. mills. Actually, Japanese exports to the U.S. are barely 2½% of the U.S. cotton-goods market. Moreover, Japan is also one of cotton's best customers, bought $120 million worth of raw cotton last year from the U.S. To still the protests, the U.S. has worked out agreements for voluntary curbs, e.g., Japan has pledged...