Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pontiac price rises vary from $100 to $280 per car, Oldsmobile's from $132 to $284, Buick's from $168 to $264. Cadillac increases range from $348 to a high of $644 on the top-priced Fleetwood "Seventy-Five," the biggest price hike in the industry...
...Ford, the week before it was scheduled to show its new line to the public. Average increase: some $70 a car, or just about enough to cover costs of materials and labor. Ford's action was the tipoff to 1957 prices. While every auto make will probably hike prices slightly, no one can afford too high a boost, especially in the low-price field, where everyone expects a ruggedly competitive battle. Even with the increases, 1957's auto buyer will get more for his money. Cars will be longer, lower, more powerful. Chevrolet will have fuel injection...
FREIGHT RATES will go up for second time in year if railroads have their way. After getting 6% rate hike from Interstate Commerce Commission last March, roads want another 15% boost to improve and maintain equipment in face of rising costs. Cost to shippers, if ICC approves increase: about $1 billion annually...
...large amount of the funds derived from this tuition hike will be funnelled back to needy scholarship students whose scholastic records merit such assistance. Griswold emphasized the fact that every possible effort will be made to see that scholarship students may continue to receive the necessary financial aid on a one-half loan, one-half grant-in-aid basis...
Union officials, reportedly dissatisfied with the new University offer, will refer the ten-cent raise to its membership on Monday night. Earlier, the Union local voted unanimously to strike unless it received a ten per cent pay hike...