Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimates have gone up to $303 billion in personal income and $43.5 billion in corporation profits, and consequently higher income for the Treasury...
...Russian activity. Support for the farmer, expected to include an expensive new soil-bank plan, will cost more than it does in this fiscal year. But almost every Government department has devised or been prodded to devise economies. As a result, the 1957 budget is expected to go no higher than this year's $64 billion...
Collins fought to outlaw slot machines, for higher state taxes on dog-track gambling, for higher educational standards and better mosquito control to hold down that old Southern malady, malaria. "I can hardly remember a summer when I wasn't sick with the chills and fever of malaria," Collins said last week. "I used to drink Dr. Groves's tasteless chill tonic by the barrel. I guess it was all that pulled a lot of us through. Well, when I became a legislator I got a chance to work for remedial legislation. Now there are doctors who have...
...mouths of the preachers and the prophets have been stopped with gold . . . Where virtue reigned on a scale which some may have thought exaggerated, wealth has become the only criterion of merit . . . The common thief still forfeits his hand, the common adulterer his head, but the higher spheres of society, where speculation and vice are practiced on an impressive scale, live their lives in their own way with complete immunity from censure or sanctions. In a recent case, indeed, a respectable member of the [Moslem] Virtue Committee was consigned to prison for daring to criticize the laxity of the regime...
...other Air Force scientists must hurry too; every new weapon project calls for materials and components of higher and higher performance. Human nerves and senses and brains must be better understood, and nonhuman brains (computing devices) with greater intelligence must be constructed. Ideas of promise must be exploited, and new ideas must be extracted from both gadgetmakers and theoretical scientists. There is no rest in the fight for air power, and no end in sight...