Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visiting Chicago, young King Feisal II remained in his hotel room, canceled all appointments, including a civic luncheon. A State Department attaché explained: the tour of Detroit, with an eight-mile hike through the Ford plant, had left His Majesty "completely bushed...
...profit drop, said President Ralph Cordiner, resulted from G.E.'s high proportion of defense orders, on which profit margins are small. In all cases, the impact of taxes was enormous. Radio Corporation of America managed to boost sales 22% to a record $142 million, but was able to hike its net per share by only 3?, to 25?. Reason: R.C.A.'s taxes were up from...
...seven used to scribble on his school slate "A. Joseph Armstrong, prof, of Greek," eventually became a professor of English and the world's No. 1 collector of Browning. In term, white-haired Dr. A. used to rise at dawn each day for a five-mile prebreakfast hike, taught with explosive severity ("Son, you sound like you have a mouthful of mush"), worked with such ferocity that he left the rest of the campus panting ("I hope to die on Saturday," he would say, "so there'll be no necessity to miss classes"). To earn money...
...their newsprint from Canada, complained so vehemently that the Canadian and U.S. governments agreed to consult before any new price rise. But last week came another piece of bad news: the Canadian government authorized an increase of another $10 next month. To justify the price hike, newsprint makers explained that at the time of the last boost, $116 in U.S. money was worth $123.40 Canadian. But since then, the rise in value of the Canadian dollar-now worth 1½% more than the U.S.-makes the $116 worth only $114.30 Canadian, while their own production costs, which must be paid...
...twelfth time in six years, the ICC last week granted U.S. railroads a freight-rate increase. The latest 6% to 9% hike puts rates about 75% above prewar levels, and will give the railroads $618 million in new revenue this year-making it harder than ever for them to compete with trucks...