Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Halftime Saturday will find fife and drummers ready for a battle-of-the-bands with a new Virginia medley which includes "Hike Virginia," Virginia Cavalier Song," "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," and "Virginia Hail All Hail...
Jersey Level. Standard,Gil Co. of New Jersey, which refused to hike its gasoline prices two months ago, won a price skirmish over competitors who did. As new customers flocked to Standard stations, the Texas Co. and Shell Oil cut the price of their gasoline by ½? a gallon to the "Jersey level." Most of Standard's other competitors followed suit, while smaller companies prepared to fall into line...
...sponsor of the national rent-control law, he had favored a "voluntary" 15% provision for the rest of the country. As a tenant of the Westchester Apartments, he and several other Senators were fighting a 17½% rent hike proposed by their landlord. The country's tenants would be watching Buck...
Apartment landlords seemed to have misunderstood the "voluntary" character of the 15% rent hike authorized by the law. Tenants were put under pressure to sign leases with the 15% boost. After getting a letter from his landlord suggesting a 15% increase, an Atlanta Constitution editorial writer wrote: "Oh, it's all very voluntary of course. I can either agree to the increase or adjust myself to life in a tree. You can't bluff me, I should have said, it's a free country. I'm a citizen, I know my rights. O.K., I said, where...
Insatiable Mem Hall will open wide its cavernous maw once again this morning to gobble up an expected summer registration morsel of 1140 students returning from the spring term to hike enrollment figures in the College...