Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinarily, Shanghai's "Heavenly Voice" radio station has no more harmless or popular broadcaster than its funnyman, Hsiao Kuai-leh (Little Happiness). But about a fortnight ago, as the price of rice continued its upward hike, a big unhappiness fell upon Little Happiness. Into Heavenly Voice's microphone he sang a song entitled The Bloodsucking Rice Worms. It ran like this...
...raising prices. It looked as though the pattern would work out at around 10 to 15? an hour. Washington heard that Big Steel would hold its price line, despite such an increase. In Detroit, General Motors agreed to a year's contract with an average 15?-an-hour hike for 30,000 electrical workers, with the implication that price rises would not follow...
MOSCOW, October 16--A slash of $10,571,000,000 in next year's Russian defense budget, along with a hike of about $566,000,000 for scientific research "for further growth of the economic and military might of the Soviet Union" was recommended by Finance Minister A. G. Zverev in proposals published today...
...Royal Family and the Eisenhowers had hot scones and tea in the drawing room, and then the King led the way for a hike around the place. Dinner was at 8; grouse from the royal moors was seryed, and the guests dined to the squeal of the King's pipers. Everybody danced reels and flings that night in the castle ballroom, and Captain John danced with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Margaret got Ike's autograph before he left...
Just how W.U. will be able to pay the boost, if it goes through, and yet stay in the black, was not clear. In granting the last rate hike, FCC said that it would not make any more. Even if it did, the boost would give Western Union more telephone and air mail competition and result in a decrease in revenue...