Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city's 272,000 schoolchildren 2? more this fall. Milk prices rose a penny a quart in Des Moines; bread jumped 2? a loaf in San Francisco. Diamonds were up 10% in Dallas. Clothing in some areas is going up 71%. Food also is expected to go higher, largely as a result of higher handling costs. Said a Memphis executive: "We're paying more in freight charges per cwt. on some items than we do for the merchandise itself...
...same general pattern applies in the cattle market. Since mid-July beef cattle and calves, which constitute the largest single source of U.S. cash farm income, have been bringing farmers higher prices. All grades and weights slaughtered in Chicago last week brought a top price of $26.27 compared to $22.50 in the same week a year ago. The prices are up because lower production and premature marketing have resulted in a short supply of beef. Stockyard experts predict that the price trend will continue upward into November...
...last week, farm prices were 10% above January levels and the parity ratio had climbed to 85%. Wheat, corn, oats, rye and other commodity futures were rising. Department of Agriculture economists revised an earlier forecast, predicted that net farm income in 1956 will be higher than last year...
...major crop that will be bigger (by 2,200.000 bu.) this year than last is wheat, but the wheat farmer also can look forward to higher prices. The Department of Agriculture has announced that, effective Sept. 4, it will stop cut-rate sales of wheat from Government stocks and thus force exporters to buy on the open market. This could boost market prices to nearly 100% of parity...
...have a deep-seated aversion to political activity. Even in the last presidential campaign an upsurge in political interest on the part of businessmen generally took the form of discreet, behind-the-scenes aid. Few businessmen shrink from political action in cases that directly affect their industry, e.g., for higher tariffs on imported textiles (promised by implication last week in the Democratic platform). But most executives shrink from open support of political parties for fear of offending customers, stockholders or powerful public officials. Shrugs a Republican auto-industry executive: "We sell cars to both Democrats and Republicans−and there...