Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite Communist morality play casts the Communists themselves as gulls and simpletons: a diabolically clever villain, an "enemy of the people," insinuates himself into the party, dupes the honest comrades, rises higher and higher, and finally is given top responsibilities and honors. All the while he is conniving with other "enemies of the people," internal or external. But at last the crafty wretch is "unmasked," and the honest comrades, roused from their torpid illusions, take their vengeance...
Said Chrysler President Colbert, whose 1954 model cars have won only 11% of the total auto market thus far: "This year we're shooting for 20% of the market, and after that we'll set our sights higher...
...PRICES, after dropping for four years, are now climbing back up again. Philco touched it off by boosting 1955 models by $10 to $20 a set because of higher costs, has been quickly followed by others, including both Emerson and Admiral, which announced price cuts when they introduced new sets this summer...
...million kitty from customs revenues will be available for subsidies. If the program had been in effect this year, it would have cost the Government about $21 million to bridge the gap between the free market and the guaranteed prices. Agriculture also announced that as soon as the higher subsidies raise wool production to the 300 million-lb. goal, there will be a new target of 360 million...
...actual decrease is in the total awarded by the Business School, and may be made up by additional grants after mid-years. The $467,000 awarded so far is $65,000 less than last year's total. But prizes or higher marks, which allow more students to receive aid, normally increase the amount later in the year...