Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giant Commercial Press, only 1,234 are now considered "ideologically suitable." Traditional subject matter has similarly disappeared from the curriculum. Though the once-famed Peking University offers 300 courses, all but six are related to science and engineering. Of the 96,200 students selected last year for higher education, 50,000 were assigned to engineering, 28,500 to agriculture, medicine or physical culture, only 4% to either art or literature...
...improvement business in 1956 by upping the maximum Title I (repair and modernization) loan from $2,500 to $3,500 and the maximum repayment period from three to five years. Home improvement alone, guessed one builder, might be a $10 billion industry this year. Housing men also expect more higher-priced houses will be built. Said one builder: "People can afford to buy better houses, and we have had to raise standards and prices after ten years of building cheeseboxes...
...estimated that overall profits for 1955 may hit $915 million for Class I roads, the best year on record. The New York Central, Union Pacific and Santa Fe are all reaping the benefits of new equipment and expanding business along their tracks; Central profits of $52 million were 400% higher than 1954. For the giant Pennsylvania Railroad, increasing dieselization, new maintenance shops, heavier coal and steel shipments added up to the best year in a decade. President James M. Symes announced overall revenue of $935 million for 1955, net earnings of $41 million, more than double the 1954 figure...
...women from the Orient, Middle East, and Europe, including members of various parliaments, editors, artists, writers, and other cultural leaders will once more come together to form the International Seminar, a regular feature of the Summer School. Elliott also predicted that the student body will include a higher percentage of foreign students than the regular session...
...hinders the legislative process is a century-old, unsettled question. But there is no doubt that the practice is more widespread than ever. In fact, almost every U.S. citizen is in some way represented or affected by a lobby. The National Association of Letter Carriers is working for higher wages; the Clothespin Manufacturers of America is trying to limit imports of foreign clothespins; the Sioux Indian Tribal Council is demanding compensation for lost agricultural and game land; the American Farm Bureau Federation is pressing the Senate Agriculture Committee to broaden Agriculture Secretary Benson's soil-bank plan...