Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...qualify for the program, an executive is first chosen from the ranks of his own firm. Some companies use the AMP sessions as training periods for men they desire to promote to higher jobs. For the executive, company sponsorship can be the touch of the sword-promotion--and it is not lightly regarded. Over half the class is earmarked for a specific promotion before they take the course. They fall into the amalgam of controllers, assistant treasurers, sales managers, and production engineers labeled "middle management" and the course prepares them for "top management...
...even with the economy in good health, a high Administration official wanly predicted last week, a deficit looms for fiscal 1960. With the costs of national defense, welfare programs and farm subsidies edging ever higher, budget makers will find it tough to hold 1960 spending below the current year's $80 billion mark, tough to avoid a deficit of about $5 billion. Fondest Administration hope: by the time President Eisenhower submits his fiscal 1961 budget in January 1960, he will once again be able to point to a balanced budget...
Floating upward on a tide of red ink, the national debt reached a new alltime high of $280,851,429,657.13 in late October, the Treasury reported last week. Prospect: the debt will keep floating higher until heavy tax payments start rolling in next January...
...Higher Margin? Strangely, though many victims of the radium-tonic craze were made severely ill, some lost limbs and a few died as a direct result of poisoning, most of the long-term survival cases now under study appear to be in good health. Especially notable is the fact that among the 160 so far examined, Dr. Evans has found not a single case of leukemia. The continuing study at M.I.T., broadening out since doctors all over the U.S. were alerted by the A.M.A. Journal to search their memories and patients' histories for radium-craze cases, is expected...
Since customers are becoming increasingly suspicious of a store's cut-price tags, many a merchant and manufacturer have joined up in a new scheme to fool the customer by promoting a "manufacturer's list price." The manufacturer advertises a "suggested retail price," which is much higher than he expects the retailer to charge, tickets his merchandise or stamps the delivery carton with the inflated price. The retailer can then drastically cut the price, show the customer the price stamped on the original carton as proof of a huge bargain. One lawnmower manufacturer advertised last spring...