Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Ways and Means Committee, in approving a money-raising section of the vast road construction program, voted to assess highway users nearly $14 billion in new taxes over the next 16 years. Among the committee recommendations: a 1? hike in the present 2?-per-gallon gasoline and diesel fuel tax; a 3?-per-lb. increase in the present 5?-per-lb. tire tax; a 2% increase in the tax on the sales price of trucks, buses and trailers; a new annual tax of $1.50 per 1,000 lbs. on trucks weighing more than...
Last month, afraid that an all-round wage hike would whip Israel's cantering inflation into a gallop, the government reneged on a promise to raise professionals' pay. The professionals had taken all they could: 8,000 of them went on strike. Doctors, judges, lawyers, engineers, teachers and civil servants walked out of clinics, courtrooms, lecture halls and government offices, leaving the untrained and unskilled to fend for themselves. Said striking professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: ''The future of Israel in the Middle East depends on its position as a state highly developed...
...Cathedral, was in the embarrassing predicament of a big employer with a wage dispute on his hands. Early this year Party-Liner Johnson's choristers, restricted to part-time outside jobs because they must warble Evensong at 3:15 p.m. five days a week, asked for a pay hike from $675 a year to $1,000. No strike was threatened, but Dr. Johnson and his chapter cohorts thumbed down the raise, summarily suspended the choristers' spokesman on a handy pretext. Last week, with the suspended singer toying with the idea of lorming a choristers' union, Dr. Johnson...
...Five. The strike began on Oct. 17, when a deadlock at the bargaining table erupted into the streets and onto the picket lines. The union insisted on a one-year contract with a 15? hourly wage hike. To meet competition and provide for long-range planning, Westinghouse demanded a five-year contract, with yearly raises amounting to 23.5? an hour by 1961-terms similar to but not identical with those agreed upon by the union and General Electric. But there was a deeper issue. Westinghouse is trying to put through a companywide, time-study program aimed at increasing production efficiency...
...more overcrowding, more slowdowns and more complaints. The public was well pleased when McGinnis began a program of improving and enlarging the parking lots at suburban stations. Then he announced a monthly parking charge of $5.50 a car. While the customers howled over what amounted to a concealed hike in their commutation-ticket fares. Pat McGinnis turned the affair into a real Donnybrook with a speech in Norwalk. "Because I want to charge a lousy five bucks," he roared, "people act as though I've torn up the tracks. There's going to be parking at every station...