Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jumped 27%. Its net profit for 1952's first quarter was $628,000, compared to last year's first-quarter net of $2,915,000. All the other big lines told CAB the same story; all wanted to raise their fares. Last week CAB authorized a $1 hike on all airline tickets, whether for a 50-or a 3,550-mile trip. Estimated cost to air travelers: $16 million a year...
...raid sends the Japs scurrying and allows Kent to save his skin. One man escapes with him, his young orderly, Anson. The two men make a long hike to safety, but one night, with shells and men screaming around him, Kent puts his arms around Anson. Before Captain Kent's war is over, he has sunk himself in a degrading attachment, killed a man who threatened to expose him, and made a fainthearted try at suicide...
...green light for a price boost averaging close to 5% on 1952 models. But Ford said no thanks. Instead, Ford boosted prices a scant 3% on most models, actually reduced prices slightly on three. Ford was following the lead of General Motors, which did not take the full hike permitted by OPS under the Capehart Amendment...
...analysis method, which graphically plots both an entire economy and its intricate interrelations, enables government and industry planners to gauge beforehand the effects of a shortage, a surplus, partial unemployment of the nation's economy, or a wage hike...
Life with the Roses is one crisis after another, e.g., Jane's acid test as a baby sitter when all the formula bottles break, Jimmy-John's grim efforts to ride a bicycle or hike ten miles for a Boy Scout merit badge. Along the line, thanks to the long-suffering Roses, the problem pair finds understanding, love and finally the security that turns them into normal youngsters...