Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reversed its budget-cutting ways (all four previous appropriation bills were cut) to increase Agriculture Department appropriations for fiscal 1954 to $1.08 billion, which is $8,900,000 more than the Eisenhower Administration requested. The increase came from a hike in soil-conservation funds, voted after North Dakota's crusty Republican Representative Usher L. Burdick told his colleagues: "Now, if you want to legislate yourselves right out of control of this House, you get in here and oppose soil conservation...
...walkout of the 500-man union began May 7 as protest against Yale's refusal to grant their four point program for a ten cents an hour across-the-board wage hike, double time for Sundays, union shop, and limitation of student employment...
...qualified students and professors who flock to the school every year. They come with new ideas for experiments--kept current to meet the demands of new public health problems. Many of the younger men at one time or another have been offered jobs outside the school with a hike in salary, yet they have refused to leave Harvard. Most are confident that the school will soon solve its financial worries...
...year will get a 20% rate cut; parents who keep their youngsters' part-time driving down to 25% of the yearly mileage will get a 9% cut. On the other hand, young drivers who take out their own policies arid have no parental supervision will get a 30% hike in rates...
...into her astonished ear the truth about the breadbasket-how the Macfadden stomach revolted against breakfasts, steaks and alcohol, and how steel-strong it grew on a regimen of nuts, raw carrots and beet juice. She knew that he loved her when he took her on a 20-mile hike; they had barely covered half the distance when he popped the question. When she said yes, "he stood on his head for me for one minute and four seconds." So began (in 1913) a robust alliance that was to flourish until 1930, when they separated. Dumbbells and Carrot Strips...