Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over 65 or with more than 50% disability, there would be no more pensions. ("This is to give new value to the beautiful name of veteran," enthused Veterans Minister Edmond Michelet.) For farmers there would be no more subsidies for the planting of olive trees, and there would be higher taxes on tractor fuel and tools...
...desperate effort to stop the trend, the government announced last week that it would pay up to 36% higher prices for compulsory livestock deliveries. But the government's prices are still far below the free market prices. Gomulka is caught in a dilemma: he cannot go on as a leader of a socialist country whose farm sector is only 1% socialist; yet every time he breathes too strongly in the socialist direction, the peasantry resists...
...Washington for a summit conference with the hard-bitten boss of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Air Line Pilots Association, Clarence Sayen. Pressure was on both sides to settle before American starts to lay off most of its 20,500 nonstriking employees this week. Probable terms: three pilots in jets, higher pilot pay and improved benefits...
Spurring the market's rise were reports from Detroit that automakers are scheduling January production of new cars 22% higher than a year ago. Ford stock rose 32 points when it predicted that dealers would add $1 billion to sales by marketing 200,000 to 400,000 more Ford cars in 1959 than in 1958. Ford's new Galaxie series is accounting for one-third of current sales, and the Ford division will increase its January production schedule of these models 15%. General Motors' Cadillac division reported that retail deliveries of Cadillacs in the first 20 days...
There can be little doubt that Congress will reject the Administration's budget estimate in favor of a higher one, possibly one as high $83 billion. This action will come, not because of any insurgent radicalism on the part of the Democrats, but because Congress has learned that there are more things one can do with money than save it, and this is a sometime good thing. The Administration's efforts to cut down on government expenses are certainly laudable, but in the terms of the sports world, Ike should have learned by now that the object...