Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time in more than two years, the U.S. economy is entirely free of wage and price controls. As President Eisenhower last week struck off the last controls-on machine tools, steel, chemicals and other basic commodities freedom brought only a few price boosts. There was a $4-a-ton hike in sulphur and a 4?-a-lb. hike in coffee.* But, in general, businessmen showed no desire to gouge each other or the consumer for that matter. Actually, with production so high in most raw materials, there was little opportunity...
Actually, said the railroad men, the 4? (which will hike the average rail wages to $1.90 an hour) was just another way of granting a flat raise. In agreements with the various brotherhoods in 1951-52, the roads had okayed a 22-½?-to 37?-an-hour wage increase. This, said the carriers, more than compensated for any productivity pay given in other industries. Of more long-range importance, Mediator Guthrie's award was bound to have a great effect on all collective bargaining. With the precedent set, there was no reason why any union could not demand productivity...
Jordan listed four reasons for the increased awards which he hopes will alleviate pressure caused by the $200 tuition hike. The Annex has decided to increase the rate of distribution on invested funds from 4.75 to 5 percent. A gift of $4000 as income has been received for undergraduates for next year...
Radcliffe yesterday announced an expected hike in tuition...
...easy to groan at, but impossible to quarrel with a tuition hike. It has been coming ever since the inflation of the Korean War. But any tuition rise at Harvard starts of frenzied grubbing for more scholarship funds, more student employment, and other ways to help the students from average income families meet the new rates. It shoves still farther into the future the day when Harvard can achieve a truly national student body, both geographically and economically, Because these unpleasant repercussions are inevitable, any tuition rise should be as small as possible...