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Word: hiked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...weeks. At 95.5% of capacity this week, production was still climbing. Although the coal settlement had added anywhere from 10? to 25? to the cost of producing a ton of steel, the steelmakers, wary of Congress' watchful eye (see below), apparently planned to absorb the cost and not hike prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Strength for the Boom | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Even strict economy measures, such as abolishing rents and taxes on MTA property and payroll reductions, will not bring the yearly deficit below $3,000,000. The only feasible solution is the fare hike. From now on Bostonians will just have to fumble for that extra nickel...

Author: By Humphrey Doormann, | Title: ON THE OTHER HAND | 3/4/1950 | See Source »

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