Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kahales' bill is designed to prevent a raise in fares. Governor Herter '15 recently proposed a 11/2 cent fare hike for the MTA. The present rate is 15 cents...
...film milks a few laughs by dressing Webb up as a scoutmaster and turning him loose on an overnight hike with his irreverent charges. Unfortunately, the whole thing soon turns from slapstick to sentiment as Webb and his wife (Frances Dee) decide to adopt Master Winslow. Edmund Gwenn does his twinkling best as a clergyman in on the plot to make a child-lover of Webb...
Writers are crisply advised to avoid cliches and never, never to use such tired words as "shambles" (a "scene of slaughter, not merely a wrecked place") or "hike" for a wage or price increase ("A hike is a tramp and a tramp is a bum and bum is the word for hike"). They are also warned against words that may trip up printers, e.g., towhead. Thus, one story in the Times said: "To bright, two-headed youngsters . . ." Wrote Bernstein: "Use 'blond,' 'flaxen-haired'-anything...
...signed up General Motors for a liberal contract extension (TIME, June 1), Reuther sat down with Ford's Labor Relations Boss John S. Bugas and got still more. Bugas agreed to all G.M.'s concessions: 19? in temporary cost-of-living boosts made permanent, a 1? hourly hike in the annual productivity allowance, a 10? hourly pay boost for skilled workers. He also agreed to a boost in maximum pensions, a bargaining matter that Reuther had not been able to reopen in his G.M. negotiations. The boost: from $125 to $137.50 a month...
...Setting "reserve requirements," i.e., the proportion of cash reserves a bank is required to hold against its total deposits. The Fed can set reserves as low as 10%, on the average, which means banks can lend $10 for each $1 on deposit. Or it can hike them to 20%, on the average, which means that banks can lend only $5 for each $1 on deposit...