Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RAIL-FARE HIKE will send up first-class tickets by 15% on six eastern lines. Together with recent 5% raise, this makes total 20% boost approved by ICC in 1957, brings per-mile first-class rates...
Teaching follows, who may now draw up to three-fifths of the so-called "base rate" of $3,600 will be able to draw the same fraction of $4,000. This will mean a hike of $240 for those working the maximum allowed time...
Last year the move to raise first-class mail rates died in congress. The most logical way to raise the needed revenue is not, however, to hike letter rates but to increase charges on third-class advertising. Advertisers pay far less than their actual cost to the government and their flood of commercial trivia bloats the mail...
...FARE HIKE of 6%, which eight of nation's big trunk lines are scheduling for April, will probably be vetoed by CAB. But Capital and Eastern will ask board to throw lines a bone by permitting $1 extra "terminal charge" on each ticket...
...coming from Congress. While Senate is considering boost, House voted a $500 million increase in amount Federal National Mortgage Assn. can borrow from Treasury to buy U.S.-insured mortgages from private lenders. Bill will tide over Fannie Mae until June 30, by which time Eisenhower Administration hopes to hike agency's borrowing power by $1 billion...