Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, a subway running between the building and the Capitol, as well as renovations and additions in the vicinity, will hike the total cost to something like $122 million. But according to Patman's calculations, it was "a bargain of the first magnitude"-$36.56 per sq. ft. as against $90.94 for the 1935 Supreme Court Building...
...report on the steel industry, where recent price increases have spread until they cover 16% of total shipments. In Eckstein it has one of the nation's top analysts of the industry; it was his study for Congress in 1959 that produced the startling estimate that the 110% hike in steel prices between 1947 and 1957 accounted for roughly 40% of the entire rise in U.S. industrial prices in that decade. The Council, which makes a specialty of keeping a close watch on steel, has already guided Johnson in his repeated warnings against steel price hikes, basing its advice...
...20th century's greatest romances is between the businessman and the jet. Of 'the passengers on U.S. domestic flights, a remarkable 86% are businessmen. Their rush to take advantage of the jet's speed and convenience has not only helped to hike airline bookings and earnings (trunkline profits so far in 1964 are up 94% to $158 million), but is also having profound effects on the very methods of doing business. "I can reach our principal distributors in Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake or Spokane in two hours," says Los Angeles' Thomas A. Welch, western regional sales...
President Johnson has expressed the hope that a settlement can be achieved which will not prompt the industry to hike prices and set off possible price spirals in other industries...
...Lyndon Johnson's admonition to the nation's bankers not to increase their loan interest rates. In response to the rise in the Federal Reserve Board's own discount rate, the big Boston bank had just the day before become the third U.S. bank to hike its own prime rate, but Johnson's pressure changed all that. Said the First National officer: "By the time we got to work the next day, those of us who run this bank knew what we had to do. Our chances of winning this fight were zero." Out went...