Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest untapped source of more college income is tuition. Harris is strongly in favor of boosting it from the present $1 billion yearly to $4 billion. While average tuition has risen about $100 since 1930, he notes, the comparable costs to a college have risen to $500-requiring a $400 subsidy a year for the average student. At the same time, family income after taxes has risen by $3,000. If tuitions are scaled accordingly-and scholarships are also expanded-the net income from higher tuition could be about $2.5 billion yearly...
Heavy electrical equipment makers also reported healthy improvement in new orders. General Electric's large steam-turbine-generator department said that orders thus far this year are almost equal those for all of 1958, while Allis-Chalmers' backlog of unfilled orders has risen 72% since the end of last year, now stands at $225 million, a record peacetime total. Other sectors of the capital-goods complex, such as generator makers, locomotive builders, and construction equipment manufacturers, reported rising new business. Summed up McClure Kelley, president of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (machine tools, road-building equipment): "The improvement comes from...
...house, sold it at a $4,300 profit. He and his wife set to work building another house, but they sold that one too-and the next, and the next. By last week, John Long, 38, had built nearly 10,000 houses worth more than $100 million, had risen to the top of the U.S. home-building industry with a flair for showmanship and a knack of building the most house for the least money...
...onetime senior editor of TIME; by his own hand (gunshot); in Manhattan. Chicago-born, Oregon-reared Ed Cerf joined TIME as a writer after graduation from Princeton in 1940, the next year went into the Marine Corps, fought at Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, by war's end had risen to the rank of major...
...worst sinking spell. As prices of old issues hit new lows, their yields rose as high as 4.28%. exceeding the 4¼% ceiling on coupon rates the Government can set on new long-term bonds. Not since the hectic, tight-money days of early 1932 have yields risen so high. The sinking spell came at a particularly bad time for Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson; he needed $5.3 billion to carry the Government through June...