Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INTEREST-RATE HIKE on consumer loans is being considered by big Manhattan banks. Loan demand is so strong that the hike may be as much as ½% on auto, appliance, home-improvement and personal loans...
...Even to keep going with our present enrollment we need new and greater sources of income," Bundy asserted at a Boston press conference. He predicted, therefor, that the College would soon institute its fourth tuition hike since the war, and thereby keep in line with Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, "who are already up around the $1000 mark...
...miles or more from Joe Moore's home across the line in Tennessee. By the time he was ten, his pre-dawn routine included milking eight cows and helping feed the hogs and mules. The big breakfast that followed was easily worked off in a three-mile hike to school. Summers it was full time at chopping corn, suckering tobacco, pitching hay. By the time he was eleven he was plowing a mule to a double shovel, and the next year he was allowed now and then to drive the new tractor...
...tiger! You own the sky." All of this naturally makes Airman McConnell seem a bit of a sap as well as a lot of a hero, and strongly suggests that the Air Force itself is just a shining-faced troop of hi-octane Boy Scouts on an overnight hike to Cloud 8. In fairness to the producers, it has to be said that they meant better than they made; nevertheless, The McConnell Story is an instance in which simple human dignity has been clobbered by commercial cuteness...
Many another corporation followed right behind the leaders. In petroleum, Socony Mobil earned a record $97 million in the first half, up 10.2% from last year; Gulf Oil's semiannual $91,871,000, 13.7% higher than last year, set another record; Phillips Petroleum's profit hike of 12.3% above the previous half year, to $42,575,770, set still another high mark. Little Steel was not to be outdone. Operating at 101% capacity, Jones & Laughlin netted $12,926,000 in the second quarter, 104% above a year ago. while Bethlehem, averaging 100.6% capacity, also hit a new quarterly...