Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showdown began when cops tear-gassed and whipped 800 high school students protesting a trolley-fare hike. The brutality brought out the university students next day. Alarmed, the government canceled the fare hike, but 1,000 students grabbed stones, tree limbs or bicycle pumps, marched into the grounds of Asunción's largest high school chanting: "We will be victorious or die." The cops slammed 30 tear-gas shells into the school grounds and flogged the youths through an Indian gantlet of two rows of police, who beat the students as they fled...
...Army announced that Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley, now driving a Jeep for a platoon in an armored outfit in West Germany, was recently promoted from private first class to specialist fourth class. His $26.93 pay hike upped Millionaire Presley's total service salary (including overseas pay) to a cool $135.30 a month. But no sooner did Elvis put on his fancy new golden-eagle arm patch than an untoward infirmity, long predicted by his detractors, laid him low: his tonsils gave out. At week's end Soldier Presley was recovering from his throat infection, and doctors planned...
Worried that the new boom would sweep in more inflation, the Federal Reserve Board last week took an expected step. It approved a hike in the discount rate on loans to commercial banks from 3% to 3½% for five member banks: New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Dallas. The new discount rate is the highest since the fall of 1957, is bound to restrict even further the tightening money market. The Federal National Mortgage Association braced itself for tighter money by reducing the price it will pay for Government underwritten mortgages from 99% to 97% of face value...
...Fertile Void"). What emerges is an allegory on whatever the reader chooses-the perversity of man, the bright illusion of love, the red-eyed aurochs of war. Dotted throughout the book are moon-mad digressions-a plan to enroll farm boys in the Joy Scouts of America, hike them into Harlem for instruction in reefer rolling; a 14-page hypothesis, mostly in verse, on why Ireland is underpopulated (it wasn't the snakes, Goodman theorizes, that nearsighted St. Patrick banished...
...most Wall Streeters and nearly all stockholders like splits. A split produces an optimistic psychology among investors; it seems to promise that things are going well with the company, especially when the split is accompanied by a hike in the dividend. Corporations like splits because they keep the price low, broaden the market for their securities. Many an investor would rather buy 100 shares at $15 a share than ten shares at $150. Atlantic Refining was selling at $86 and losing stockholders when it split its stock in 1952. In the following few months its list of stockholders increased...