Word: higher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tall Story (by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) hinges on that old story of campus comedy, the Big Game in Jeopardy. According to its boosters, Custer College has "higher scholastic standards, a better basketball team, and a lower rate of pregnancy" than any little coed college in the Midwest. The haloed hoopster of the basketball team, a stilt-high science major named Ray Blent (played with engaging cyclonic dis-coordination by Robert Elston), is in love with the pert, bouncy girl cheerleader (Nina Wilcox). When $1,500 in fix money is anonymously planted in his overcoat, visions of marrying...
There was many another sign of steady recovery. The number of workers drawing unemployment compensation dropped, as did new claims for jobless pay. Department store sales ran 5% above the year-ago level. January auto production, geared closely to sales, moved 11% higher than last year's rate (see chart). American Motors was selling three times as many Ramblers as it did in January 1958. Studebaker-Packard was also outselling last year 3 to 1, due almost entirely to its fast-moving little Lark. The company had already outproduced its 1958 total of 49,770 and made...
...Teague would throw a roadblock in the way, as he has in the past, by refusing to permit an increase in the G.I. mortgage rate, from 4¼% to 5¼%, which was incorporated in both Senate and House bills. But Rayburn took Teague aside, and he permitted the higher interest rate to go through...
...public housing units, 2) a six-year, $350 million-a-year urban renewal program, with the Federal Government still paying two-thirds of the cost instead of the gradual reduction to 50% asked by Ike, and 3) a $150 million direct G.I. housing loan fund to backstop the new, higher 5¼% mortgage rate in areas where private capital fails to come forward to finance G.I. housing...
Though initial transportation costs are often much higher than rail or truck, the savings in time, warehousing, handling, inventory and other costs more than make up the difference in many cases. American turned Armour & Co.'s pharmaceutical division into a regular customer by showing it how to reduce costs $100,000 annually by shipping drugs air freight to a five-state area. For many of the same reasons, Burroughs Corp. has started shipping computers by air and figured a $245.43 net gain on shipping a 1,640-lb. computer from Detroit to Los Angeles...