Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CANNED FOOD PRICES are heading higher. To meet rising costs, packers forecast a 5% wholesale hike for 1956 pack. Retail rise...
...Radio and TV sets went up 2.522%, from 161,000 to 4,222,000 units. (U.S. comparison: from 11.8 million to 22.2 million units, an 88% hike...
Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas has made as much news with his ascents as his dissents. Of Men and Mountains, his Thoreau-like reflections on mountain climbing in the Pacific Northwest, scaled 1950'S bestseller lists. The previous year, a hike up the peaks of Azerbaijan near the Russo-Iranian border brought a salvo of charges from the Soviet press that he was leading "a gang of spies." Uphill and down in seven years, the journeying justice has covered tens of thousands of miles, toured 20 lands and written five books about his travels. Folksy, candid, and inclined...
...that its credit medicine is working effectively. Such sensitive barometers as daily spot-commodity prices have been edging downward, especially in scrap steel and copper. Furthermore, the volatile money market seems to be adjusting to the new climate after a sharp flare-up in April immediately following the latest hike in discount rates to Federal Reserve member banks. Interest rates on short-term (up to 90 days) Treasury bills, which jumped from 2.17% at the end of March to 2.78% at the end of April, are settling down again, and long-term U.S. bonds show the same pattern...
POSTAL-RATE INCREASE will probably be put off for at least another year. Though House Post Office committee has approved a $432 million rate hike (to 4? first class, 7? air mail), chances are slim that Congress, with many members facing reelection, will pass the Administration-backed measure...