Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Space pioneer of the week: a male Latin American squirrel monkey. Strapped into a rubber-padded chamber in the nose cone of a Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile, the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed beast, Little Old Reliable by name, made space-research history as the first higher mammal to travel hundreds of miles into space, where only a Russian dog and U.S. mice had gone before. Purpose of the test: to gather data on how a human might fare in space flight. Reasons for picking a squirrel monkey: small size-Little Old Reliable weighed less than 1 lb.-and close...
Beyond Taxation. Last week, watching the formal presentation of the city charter by Governor Albert Rosselini, Richlanders recognized that there was many a problem ahead. G.E. paid its city employees wages 30% to 40% higher than scales in neighboring communities; Richland must meet the rate or possibly lose them. Although the city is bond-free and takes title to debt-free city hall, sewage plant and waterworks, its tax yield at the start will be too small to meet expenses. The Hanford atomic plant is beyond city limits and untaxable; property, liquor and gasoline taxes will be $250,000 less...
...expenses, and yet support industry groups seeking more Government subsidies? Why is it that some labor leaders press hard for wage increases to keep up with the cost of living, and then urge a massive program of legislative action which, if adopted, would lead to more deficit spending, higher taxes, and inflation...
...generally accepted labor-saving machinery and consequent boosts in productivity, but these have not been enough, soft-coal companies implied in announcing that prices would go up after Jan. 1. Economists guessed that the increases would set the pattern for hard coal prices, would be reflected in higher prices in steel and eventually through the rest of the economy...
...this somewhat Veblenesque view of higher learning is accurate, then we must ask ourselves what the impact of the bourgeois is on this bourgeois education women. If the primary function of the college is to turn out executives and technicians and professionals, what is its relevance to women whose closest contact with the marketplace is buying groceries, and who will seldom have to hold any job more challenging than a secretary...