Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heat always naturally flows from higher to lower temperatures, never the reverse...
SOCIAL SECURITY FUND will run $87 million in red for fiscal year, which began July 1. Higher social security taxes, which went into effect last Jan. 1, are expected to boost fund's income over outgo, starting in 1961; fund's $1.5 billion deficit, accumulated over past three years, is scheduled to be repaid...
Best Year. Dealer Koetser rose to take a modest bow. "I was prepared to go much higher," he admitted. "I think the value was much more than the price." Koetser was far from through for the day. In all, he bought eight paintings, two of them-an El Greco for $201,600 and a Frans Hals for $134,400-for the same client who had commissioned him to buy the Rubens. As to who the unknown collector was, Koetser would only say that he was "definitely a British collector," male, who had no other...
...prospective tenant's mouth water more longingly than any other words. "Owner" is the O.K. word today for landlord ("The New Deal fostered a bitter reaction to 'Landlord' "). An accomplished owner delegates most of his work to his "manager" ("Avoid the word 'janitor' ... a higher-class manager can be hired by referring to the dirty work as 'maintenance' or 'custodial...
...steel industry profits, a key point in the argument, management and labor find it even harder to agree on the facts. Last week the Government announced that the steel industry's near-record first-quarter profits of $374 million after taxes represented 11.7% of stockholders' equity, higher than in U.S. manufacturing as a whole (10% of equity); second-quarter earnings are expected to be even rosier. But the Government's report also pointed out that over the last ten years steel has not done as well as other industries, and steel companies complain that their present good...