Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Selective Service officials announced Saturday that the July draft call will be 20 percent higher than the average for the last five months, but denied that the hike had any connection with the current crisis in Indochina...
Only "prepared foods" such as salads and sandwiches will be affected by the price hike...
...President's Council of Economic Advisers. The author of the paragraph is George Bookman, business and economics reporter in TIME'S Washington office, who recently covered one of the capital's most pleasant news assignments: Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas' 178-mile hike along the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal...
...story began with a good-natured disagreement between the Washington Post, which thought a parkway along the canal was a good idea, and Justice Douglas, who thought otherwise and suggested that a hike along the route might prove his point (TIME, March 29). Reporter Bookman was one of 37 white-collar workers, nature lovers and reporters who joined Justice Douglas on his venture. There were no invitations -anyone was welcome to tag along. Bookman got his walking orders on a Thursday morning. When the teletypewriter began rattling out the week's news queries from New York, one query asked...
...railroads habitually ask for more than they need. Six months ago, the railroads asked for a 45% increase for carrying first-class mail. But when Postmaster Arthur Summerfield start ed giving more business to planes and buses, the railroads backed down fast, were glad to take a 10% hike. Railroadmen feel that if they could set their own rates and shave them quickly to meet competition, the ICC could concentrate on preventing regional discrimination, stopping cutthroat competition and guarding against shenanigans in railroad management...