Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cherington criticized the petition of 89 railroad presidents asking the I.C.C. to authorize higher fares in the area north of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi. "This unreasonable plan proves the need for government ownership of railroads," he commented...
Judging rules state that the judge for the higher place is the ruling official. But somehow this regulation itself was overruled, and Hawkins was given second place to Yale's Sandy Gideonse...
...second place judge named Dyer as having finished second, but the judge for third place picked him for third. Again, the decision of the higher placed official should have prevailed, but Gideonse once more received the benefit of an irregularity...
Barreled Benefits. The nation's most automated industries are chemicals and oils. If it were not for automation, the U.S. motorist would pay a much higher price for gasoline than he does. While the oil industry's average wage jumped from $1.87 hourly in 1949 to $2.47 hourly last year, automation boosted production so fast that the labor cost per barrel of finished products dropped from 28.3? to 23.7?. Refinery workers also benefited. For example, as production at Texas' McMurrey Refining Co. increased from $7,500,000 of high-quality motor fuels a year to $22 million...
Urged on by cries of poverty and appeals to charity, higher education is on the march towards bigger and better scholarship programs. Congressmen are urging their fellows to establish a half-billion dollar fund for needy geniuses, corporations are exhorting their stockholders to approve national talent searches, and educators are reminding their former pupils that the alma mater is not yet perfect. In the midst of this nascent crusade, Harvard is fortunately able to assume a somewhat holier-than-thou attitude...