Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOFT-COAL PRICES will go up about 25? a ton although demand is dropping. Reason: 200,000 miners are getting 80?-a-day raises on April 1. Hike will hit coal-burning utility companies hardest...
...America has boosted prices for three of its ten color sets by $45 to $50, will sell them in range from $645 to $745 v. previous $595 to $695. But lowest-priced RCA color TV will stay at $495 at least until summer, by which time company may hike all color prices to offset higher costs for labor, materials...
...FARE BOOST will be asked by United Air Lines. Nation's No. 2 domestic air-passenger carrier on March 1 will petition CAB for 6% hike on all passenger flights in order to offset higher costs...
...fallen on the state regulatory commissions, particularly the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls 45% of all U.S. oil production and so far has refused to boost its allowables appreciably. The independent oilmen who dominate the Texas commission have created an artificial shortage of oil and used that shortage to hike the price of crude oil 12% to a record average...
...difficult for them to increase production. They declare that any production increase would only benefit major producers with big wells hooked into pipelines; small producers would still have to truck their oil to market at the high cost of 35? per bbl. Furthermore, independents fear that if they hike production to ease a short-term crisis in Europe, they will be stuck with a big surplus once the crisis is past. The problem could be solved easily, say the independents, if the big companies would divert their heavy oil imports from Venezuela to Europe instead of using them to supply...