Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More than two packs: a rate of 460-or 90 times higher than the nonsmokers...
...Post was small, with a circulation of a little more than 4,000, losses ran as high as $1,000 a day. When Backer Bowmall suspended last week, $30,000 in operating capital had already gone into the tiny paper. Said he: "The cost of production was much higher than we expected...
...pioneer of electronics in music.* His argument: the orchestra can be made more subtle by use of an instrument capable of sounds that bridge the tonal gaps between strings and winds, give pitch to the dull thud of the bass drums, play lower than a double bass and higher than a piccolo. The idea has caught on: dozens of electronic instruments have been developed, the latest of which is RCA's Synthesizer, unveiled four months ago, which can reproduce the sound of any musical instrument...
...Senators (Ohio's Bricker, Utah's Bennett and Maryland's Beall), Capehart accused the Democrats of bringing forth a gloom-and-doom report, aimed at damaging the Republican Administration. The real reasons for the rise in stock prices, wrote Capehart, were not "iniquitous speculation," but the higher rates of production, and the stability that the Eisenhower Administration has brought about...
...England textile industry has shown it to be very cyclical in nature, enjoying periodically high profits and abysmal losses. Continual financial reinvestment in capital equipment has been subordinated to the desire of owners to obtain profits while they can, and to the consistent demands of workers to acquire higher wages. Southern competition benefits not only from lower wages but also from newer and more efficient machinery. The enactment of a minimum wage will, therefore, not completely solve the problem...