Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiscal 1960 budget, from the White House came hopeful reports that spending and revenue estimates were nearing a balance. A new postal rate increase, which the Administration hopes to get, would put revenue at about $77 billion, as against spending plans pared to about $78 billion (including a defense budget just about firmed at $41.5 billion). Still under consideration: requests for a 1½? increase in the federal gasoline tax and a hike in the aviation gas tax. If the budget could be brought into balance, President Eisenhower would achieve what seems to be his fondest domestic hope...
...Army Jupiter with Little Old Reliable aboard got off its Cape Canaveral launching pad in a perfect takeoff. Atop the passenger's head was a tiny helmet with a microphone attached to record vocal sounds, and fitted into the little compartment were assorted instruments to measure heartbeat rate, blood pressure, body temperature, breathing rate. During the first few minutes of flight, while the missile was accelerating under the thrust of its engines, telemetering devices reported slowed-down and irregular breathing, slightly speeded-up heartbeat. Then, during about eight minutes of weightlessness while the missile was in ballistic flight, breathing...
Beyond Taxation. Last week, watching the formal presentation of the city charter by Governor Albert Rosselini, Richlanders recognized that there was many a problem ahead. G.E. paid its city employees wages 30% to 40% higher than scales in neighboring communities; Richland must meet the rate or possibly lose them. Although the city is bond-free and takes title to debt-free city hall, sewage plant and waterworks, its tax yield at the start will be too small to meet expenses. The Hanford atomic plant is beyond city limits and untaxable; property, liquor and gasoline taxes will be $250,000 less...
Another important factor at stake in such a system is the effect it will have on prospective applicants to the College. Should a uniform rate be instituted, the admissions officers will no longer be able to explain that there are rooms available to students of limited means at $120 a term. There will just be the inflexible fact that rooms will cost approximately $500 a year for every one. This will provide yet another deterrent to the prospective applicants who are already frightened away from Harvard by the steadily increasing cost of spending four years as a student here...
...comparison with the arguments against a uniform room rate, arguments in its favor take on in general a secondary aspect. Certainly there are many which can be readily eliminated by a modification of the present system. One of the major objections to retaining rents as they are is that the deconversion which will result from moving upperclassmen into Quincy House would necessitate a drastic raise in the upper rent bracket. However, it appears that this possibility has been overemphasized. While deconversion may indeed occasion a small general increase in rents, most of the newly-vacated space will be taken...