Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House rejected a compromise farm bill for higher wheat supports and restricted acreage, thus headed off a move to make the farm subsidy mess even worse...
...nation's main wartime radar laboratory to the leading center of electronics and computer development. Out of its orbit have spun a dozen graduate-launched electronics companies (e.g., Raytheon) in the golden brain center of surrounding Cambridge. It attracts more foreign professors (198 last year) and has a higher proportion of foreign students (12.4%) than any other U.S. institution. Above all, M.I.T. has led in broadening scientists by trying to ground them as thoroughly in the liberal arts as in the arts of technology. For such achievements, Julius Stratton can claim major credit. No narrow specialist-he left Cambridge...
...good article to two shoddy ones. Taking dead aim at achieving an "opulent look," Sondheim and other manufacturers have gone in heavily for velvet, lace, brocade and other elegant fabrics in evening and cocktail dresses, have used fur trim lavishly. The dressier clothes cost more, promising retailers both higher unit and dollar volume. Fur Pants. Another place where the luxury look shows up is in the rising popularity of elegant casual costumes. Many top fashion houses are showing jacket-and-trouser sets to be worn to cheer the tired executive after a hard day at the office. Variations range from...
...their battling over steel negotiations, both management and labor naturally pick the figures that best prove their case. Determined to hold fast against any wage hike, industry points out that the steelworkers' average hourly wage of $3.08 is higher than in all but a handful of U.S. industries (coal, glass, construction). According to industry statistics, postwar wage costs have risen nearly twice as fast as the cost of living. Replies the union: average earnings do not mean anything, because the majority of steelworkers have to work at incentive pace and on undesirable shifts and normal off-days to achieve...
Lady, meanwhile, climbed up the bestseller list and-with the Postmaster General's own review in its scrapbook-would climb higher. Some 70,000 copies were in print at week's end, and Grove was moving them by every means except dog team. The outlook: more publicity, more sales this week, when the publisher seeks an injunction against the postmaster of New York. As for Postmaster General Summerfield, he is now free to return to his more customary reading matter, mostly books and magazines about hunting, fishing, motorboating. He is currently on Zanza buku, the account of safaris...