Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peru last week suffered the standard South American ailments: a big deficit, a puff of inflation. Unions pressed for higher wages, and an executive of one of Peru's largest industries growled: "In six months we'll have some army officers walk into the presidential palace and take over...
...country's 161 mills to bring in $600 million to make up the great bulk of Cuba's national income. Without the 21 closed mills, the goal cannot be met. Electrical workers were on a slowdown strike against the U.S.-owned Cuban Electric Co. They demanded higher pay, reinstatement of every employee fired since 1952 and the removal of Company President W. J. Amoss...
...levels of wrestling. The actors themselves insist that no one writes a script for them. Carried away with enthusiasm for the cash they rake in, agents and matchmakers join the chorus. "You oughta see the casualty list," says Mondt. But there are a few practitioners who have escaped to higher arts, and they are prone to tell it straight...
...America's educational framework is sound, the body of elementary and high school learning is far from healthy. U.S. schools still send graduates to college grossly unprepared for higher education, and many schools are still run. Hechinger reminds his readers, by such administrators as the Florida school official who said recently, "The training of our youth in sound practices in the operation of motor vehicles is as important as learning to read.'' Hechinger suggests some reforms well worth debating...
...when interest rates began to climb again with the economic recovery. As bond prices slid, their yields rose. Secretary Anderson found himself in a vicious circle; to sell his securities he had to keep edging up the interest rate. Yet every time he floated a new issue at a higher rate, prices of older issues edged down, making it necessary to put a higher rate on his next offering...