Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Highways. The federal-aid-for-roads program, bogged down in arguments about financing last session, will probably emerge as two bills, one to establish the road program, another to finance it on a pay-as-you-go basis through higher highway-connected taxes, e.g., on gasoline...
...again, as the Communists have just topped off their invasion with a Peking-to-Lhasa express highway. Probably the most exciting scenes are those in the country's great plains which, at an average height of 15,000 feet above sea level, are surrounded by mountains 10,000 feet higher...
Haydn:Trumpet Concerto (Vanguard). Haydn's normally high spirits soar, even higher with Trumpeter George Eskdale...
...biggest steel capacity in the nation's history. Despite this massive output, builders, manufacturers and processors all over the U.S. shouted for more and more steel. On building sites, in laboratories and around the plants of the steel users, there were more engineers on the job, at higher pay, than ever before. Nevertheless, employers were using every enticement from fine wines to fancy titles in an effort to lure more engineers onto their payrolls...
...This situation can be partly alleviated by breaking down the formal ranking system used in most colleges and schools. Under this system good men are discouraged, and enter higher paying industries which promise rapid advancement. What is needed is individual creativity, not trade union seniority," she said...