Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite amused at Robert M. Hutchins' comment on America's institutions of higher learning: "U.S. colleges are no more than 'high-class flophouses where parents send their children to keep them off the labor market' " [TIME, Dec. 20]. As former chancellor of one of the better "flophouses" in the country, I imagine that Mr. Hutchins must be quite proud of himself. After all, a man is no better than the house he keeps. And this man hopes to become one of the managers of our government...
...that Government controls have been removed, taxes cut, federal expenditures reduced, and "Nineteen fifty-four was one of the most prosperous years in our history. Business activity surges with new strength. Production is rising. Employment is high. Toward the end of last year average weekly wages in manufacturing were higher than ever before. Personal income after taxes is at a record level . . . The economic outlook is good...
Post Office. President Eisenhower again urged a higher pay scale for postal employees ; to pay the bill, and to erase other red figures on the Post Office ledger, he renewed his recommendation for an increase in postal rates...
...parties is conservative, and this is all to the good. One of the principles of conservatism is the protection of private property and honest industry. I hope that we Americans will conserve "free enterprise" and "economic stability." But we will conserve these things only if we set our sights higher and conserve something larger, a society of variety and tradition and veneration. The liberals cannot do that work for us. I do not know whether the conservatives can; but it is time they began...
...supposed to pay for itself, the British Transport Commission could not raise wages without raising fares and freight rates-which would antagonize other voters and raise the price of Britain's exports. Other workers got raises. But the railwaymen were made to feel that any demand for higher wages was an unpatriotic act. Four years ago "Big Jim" Campbell, amiable, earnest chief of the 400,000-man National Union of Railwaymen, said: "The men are sick, sore and sorry. They feel they are at the losing end of nationalization." A year ago Big Jim warned: "The loyalty...