Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Voted to prohibit newspapers from charging higher (or lower) rates for political ads than for other kinds...
...whites (47%), a shift from 187,000 Negroes (28%) and 474,000 whites (72%) in 1940. Since today's Negro school-age population outnumbers whites 2 to 1, while whites concentrate in the middle and upper age brackets, the Negro majority will rise even higher in the next ten years...
...Auto production slowed 2%, but last week's production schedule of 131,096 cars was 52% higher than the same week a year ago. So far in 1959, auto production is running 23% ahead of 1958, but there are signs of further slowing. Buick, Chevrolet and Mercury trimmed plans...
Much maligined and little praised, the Dining Hall Department lacks an adequate voice among the students. Yet, considering the problems of spiraling costs, demands for higher quality, and somewhat inadequate facilities, the College kitchens do a more than satisfactory job. Despite the general student railery, two-thirds of Harvard undergraduates rated the food "good"--a major achievement for institutional cooking. The kitchens cannot rival Mother--but neither could Mother serve 2 1/4 million meals per year
...member nations to cut back production. The Belgians largely ignored pleas to modernize their mines, close marginal producers. Germany's Ludwig Erhard resisted any imposition of production quotas. He preferred to slap domestic tariffs on imports from outside the area (including $4.76 a ton on U.S. coal) and higher taxes on other fuels to boost coal sales. Italy and Luxembourg want to continue buying cheaper U.S. coal, even if this is considered disloyal to surplus-ridden Community producers. The French hinted that they might not obey orders to restrict production, which, though helping the Belgians, would be merely "exporting...