Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only does the President favor an over-all increase in immigrants from 154,000 to about 220,000, but he also would let unused quotas, from nations like England, Ireland, and Germany--which now account for two-thirds of the total quota--be distributed among nations that need higher allotments. Greece, for instance, now has a total quota of only 308, Turkey 225, and Japan 185. The President would also remove altogether from quotas the refugees who have entered under the special Refugee Relief Act and who have used up large portions of Eastern European allotments far into the 22nd...
...miserable mood set in--the Wednesday when classes met for the new semester. If there were a pause of at least three days between exam period and the second semester, providing an opportunity to recover from exams and to prepare for the next cycle, spirits would be much higher than they...
...same in oil, construction, farm machinery and aviation. New markets in petrochemicals, natural gas and increasing auto travel boosted Phillips Petroleum's 1955 profit to a record $95 million, 25% more than 1954; the company will spend $200 million on expansion in 1956 and confidently predicts still higher earnings. The boom in business flying brought light-plane-maker Cessna Aircraft sales of $16 million for fiscal 1956's first-quarter, 30% more than a year ago. In housing, the demand for home and factory insulation materials pushed Johns-Manville Corp.'s 1955 sales to $285 million...
...systematically "suppress improvements and developments," e.g. the hand phone was developed in 1907 but was not introduced as standard equipment until 1927. Furthermore, A.T.& T. bought equipment solely from Western at inflated prices (on which it pocketed the profits) then went before public utilities commissions to plead for higher rates on the ground that equipment costs had risen...
...lifelong bachelor, lost his virginity to a dancing mistress, and the remnants of his Christianity to his house mother. The house mother was running "the mazes of Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Spiritualism; the whole Anglo-American Occultist tradition . . . From the tyrannous noon of revelation I passed into the cool evening of Higher Thought, where there was nothing to be obeyed, and nothing to be believed except what was either comforting or exciting...