Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only two of Ike's previous vetoes were of major bills. In 1953 he vetoed an attempt to end the 20% excise tax on movie admissions. Last year he vetoed a 5% postal and civil-service pay raise, partly because Congress had refused to finance it with higher postal rates. Repeating this objection last week, the President spoke of "the imperative need for postal rates that will make the postal service self-supporting and be based on service rendered to the user." Said he: "We can no longer afford to continue a costly deficit operation paid for by millions...
...Skin? More startling and possibly just as significant, though no epidemiologist wanted to commit himself, was the fact that 23 cases had developed in the families of children who had come down with polio after getting Cutter vaccine. Eleven were adults, and one had died. This was a notably higher rate for family contact cases than would be expected, or than had been seen in last year's trials...
Between Claverly Hall and Massachusetts Avenue on Linden Street is located the Cambridge merchants' contribution to higher learning. Here the Social Relations Department conducts daily seances to discover the symbolic meaning of the refuse regularly piled there. The Square's free enterprisers must dare police regulations to provide the scattered trash, and this is for their greater credit. If the Cambridge City Council decides to unclutter Linden Street for more parking space, the Social Relations men might well visit the exhibit at the Student Activity Center. A few occupants of the wood framed house have kindled the building's hallways...
NATIONAL DEBT LIMIT will have to be pushed up this year, possibly to $285 billion, $4 billion higher than the current statutory limit, which expires June 30. At current rates of spending, the debt will fall between $281 and $285 billion by the end of the year. President Eisenhower will probably ask Congress to boost the limit by the end of this month. But this time, he will merely set forth anticipated income, outgo and deficit, leave it up to Congress to work out its own ceiling...
Half a century as painter, poet, novelist and polemicist has brought him niggardly financial reward, but his reputation is higher than ever before. A new generation is discovering Wyndham Lewis, and his publishers are reissuing his works amid applause from those who believe that he is Britain's foremost writer...