Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That is quite a stockpile; so Defense Secretary Wilson last week announced that conventional arms orders are being reduced in favor of emphasis on the wonder weapons of the future. To rush work on them, Wilson said he would ask Congress in January for an additional $1 billion-a hike in defense spending from $34.5 billion in the fiscal year 1956, ending June 30, to $35.5 billion in fiscal...
...increase in faculty salaries last year just covered by a $200 tuition hike indicates Yale's interest in increasing the quality in its faculty as well as its faculty-student ratio. In these moves, University policy makes a start at the removal of the second objection to Griswold's original plan, i.e., the make-up of the faculty...
...further hike is expected within the foreseeable future. The barbers' union has talked of charging $1.75 for crew cuts, but Anthony Ferranti, owner of the Harvard Barber Shop, said yesterday that "there is little or no chance of such a raise in Harvard Square...
...hike in the tax on dividends paid out by private companies. This was Butler's sop to the trade unions, which had promised to hold back on wage demands if dividends were restrained...
Canadian newsprint producers argued that they have had to earmark a high percentage of profits for costly mill expansion to add 900,000 tons to Canada's annual capacity, as well as pay out 15% wage increases in the three years and three months since the last price hike. Even though St. Lawrence profits for the first half of 1955 were 37.3% ahead of the 1954 level, President P. M. Fox said: "We have gone beyond [our] ability to absorb increasing costs." At week's end the Justice Department, which has no jurisdiction over Canadian producers, asked...