Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff in Haiti to 66 technicians, including an art professor from the University of California, a traffic expert sent to study Port-au-Prince's breakneck driving habits, a platoon of agronomists to start Operation Poté Colé (Pull Together), which is designed to hike farm productivity in once-fertile northern Haiti. Taking up a desk just down the hall from Finance Minister Andre Theard, ICA's Nolle Smith, 70, a Negro economist from Wyoming, has helped cut petty corruption and inefficiency, is now sitting in on talks about a schedule of taxes and customs duties. Cost...
Hardly a householder in the U.S. needed proof of it, but the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics last week sent out the news that the cost of living was up again. The overall hike in September amounted to .3% over August, bringing the current index to a record 125.2. Meaning: a dollar's worth by 1947-49 standards now costs the consumer...
...policies of the Dining Hall Department have recently come under scrutiny because of the proposed increase in board rates. Although the College already has the highest board charge among Ivy League colleges, the Department states emphatically another hike is necessary...
...company's largest store in Detroit's suburban Livonia shopping center; he plans to open stores in Abilene and Tyler, Texas within the next months. Ward's sales reflect the growth: last week the company announced eight-month sales of $756,071,243, a 14% hike over last year. By year's end. Ward's hopes to hit a record $1.25 billion...
...most economists see any reason for making a price hike now. The British Radcliffe Report on monetary policy this year concluded that such an increase is not "immediately necessary or the most hopeful approach to the problem of international liquidity," and the International Monetary Fund has come out against it. Gold-short nations that need the most help would benefit least by the change; the major gains would be made by such big gold producers as Russia and South Africa...