Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whipping boys, the corporations. In the state legislature. Democrats and Republicans began talking about "the need for compromise.'' But as the weeks went by, 1) the Republicans tried to get a 1% increase in sales taxes, and the Democrats balked; 2) the Democrats tried to hike the debt limit to $50 million, and the Republicans balked. Last week, even though the evenly divided house (55 Republicans, 55 Democrats) finally okayed a Soapy plan to mortgage the state's $50 million veterans' trust fund to raise ready cash, the G.O.P.-run state senate turned it down...
Industry knows that it would have a hard job making a price rise stick this year, therefore has stiffened its back to any wage hike that would force one. Washington gossiped that Dave McDonald has already been told privately just what he can get at the bargaining table: a package wage hike in the area of 8?-10? an hour. Some steel officials, though they insist publicly they would have to pass any wage boosts along in prices, privately admit that they could give the union a modest package without a price hike...
This year, for the first time, Cessna is forging ahead of rival Beech Aircraft ("across the street" in Wichita) as the No. 1 maker of private planes. Cessna announced first-half earnings for fiscal 1959 of $3.92 a share v. $2.45 last year, declared a 25% hike in its quarterly cash dividend to 50?. The company's conservative projection of the year's earnings: $7 a share...
Beauty & Food. The hard-hit appliance industry came back in strength. Earnings of Whirlpool Corp. were up sharply from last year's 29^ a share to 80^. With sales up 12% in the first quarter, Borg-Warner Corp.'s President Robert S. Ingersoll announced a 45% hike in earnings, noted that Borg-Warner has "a very substantial portion" of the parts orders for the Ford and General Motors small cars. Admiral Corp., reported a profit on a sales rise of 15%. Said President Ross D. Siragusa: "All the bad things are behind...
Fortnight ago, summoned to a staff conference on how to counter the French army's increasingly aggressive tactics, Amirouche and two aides began the long hike to rebel headquarters in Tunis. They never got there. Acting on a tip, 3,000 French troops surrounded a craggy mountain where Amirouche had met local rebel leaders en route. After five hours of shooting, the French counted 71 dead. Among them was Amirouche, who was found beside a rock, his green eyes open, his chest and neck torn by grenade fragments...