Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senators and peanut Senators had formed a series of log-rolling alliances. They pushed through an increase in corn acreage, a two-price system for wheat, a dual parity plan covering cotton, wheat, corn and peanuts, a two-price plan for rice, mandatory support prices for feed grains and higher supports for dairy products. Then, in a crowning touch of irresponsibility, they voted to "set aside," i.e., ignore, much of the stored surplus commodities. Asked Vermont's exasperated Aiken: "Why not a formula which ties the price of peanuts to the batting average of the Washington Nationals...
British air experts who got a good look at the Soviet liner were not quite as impressed as the commentators. On its 1,564-mile flight from Moscow the airplane averaged 440 m.p.h., and its top air speed, they said, might be 100 m.p.h. higher. This would put it in the range of Britain's Comet and the U.S.'s Boeing and Douglas jet liners, but well short of the U.S.'s B-47 bomber (600 m.p.h...
...recent interest of the University and the Ford Foundation in higher faculty salaries seems truly to herald the dawn of a new age of the uncommon man. Unfortunately, the sun is rising slowly, and the current plan for fringe benefits will only equal ten percent of the present payroll. Faced with the problem of making a little go a long way, and lacking the businessman's padded expense accounts, the Committee on Compensation has shown much ingenuity in circumventing taxes and still distributing the money equitably. Most of its recommendations show its success in evaluating the needs...
Bundy said that individuals who seek careers in higher education must feel that some particular field of knowledge is important enough to commit their lives to it. Such attachment to one's field, Bundy said, is more essential in forming a good teacher than intellectual brilliance, successful handling of students, or long formal training in the field...
...transitional retirement program, faculty members at each rank would receive approximately equal percentage increase in salary. The straight five percent salary increase that would result from the proposed assumption by the University of all pension payments, is, of course, equitable since both senior and junior faculty members alike need higher salaries. The transitional retirement plan and the scholarship program, however, while aiding older professors, would not help the more needy junior faculty. In fact, the transitional retirement plan and the scholarship plan would consume 3.5 percent of the 10 percent increase, thus cutting the possible salary increase of the junior...