Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over in Mill Valley the Mohr family, happily installed in the Emmons house with its long view of the bay, have taken up birdwatching. "But you don't have to hike anywhere to watch them," says Mohr. "Since three sides of the living room are of glass, you can spot the birds from a reclining position on the sofa...
HIGHER OIL PRICES are on the way, says Sinclair Oil Corp. President P. C. Spencer. Though producers have held prices fairly stable for almost three years, the cost of finding oil and the cost of refining it are rising so fast that the industry wants a flat 20% hike in the price of crude oil, with commensurate price boosts for all refined products...
...STEEL PRICE INCREASE is coming in a few months, will probably top $9 a ton for one of the biggest boosts on record. Reasons: 1) anticipated union pressure for a big pay hike, 2) a $3-billion, 15-million-ton expansion in the next three years...
BRITISH BIKES are pumping ahead in their race against U.S. makes. Despite a 50% tariff hike last August, Britain shipped a record 538,429 bikes to the U.S. in 1955, captured 24% of the market...
...says ECE. But in trying to keep the boom from getting out of hand, many a government has resorted to high taxes, to price and currency controls that have actually restricted investment. All, says ECE, should attract more private investors into stock ownership, revise taxes and depreciation allowances to hike returns on risk capital...