Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the new funds take more controversal forms: $20 million from a tax on taxicab rides, $12.5 million from a one-cent increase in cigarette and cigar taxes, $13 million from a two per cent rise in the tax on restaurant meals. The cab drivers have protested loudly and threaten to raise their fares if the taxi tax goes through; the cigarette increase, coupled with a two-cent rise in the State tax, makes the combined State-City levy on a pack of cigarettes a whopping seven cents...
...fourth time since 1953, the Administration has granted an increase in faculty salaries throughout the University, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. Teaching fellows, instructors, and assistant professors will receive a hike in maximum salary, while the average pay for associate and full professors will rise this year...
...Business Rise Predicted...
...that Kassem was "soft" on the Jews, having refused (said Nasser) to join in a "decisive battle" against Israel last fall. And at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, world center of Islamic learning, the rector or "sheik of Islam" urged the Iraqi faithful "to rise as one man" in defense against Communism's alien and atheist threat to the faith...
...Barely 5 ft. tall in his home-knitted tam-o'-shanter, Maybeck was a sartorial seventh wonder. He blueprinted the clothes for his wife Annie (whom he courted by emblazoning her initial A all over the floral motifs of the Crocker Building), designed his own smock and high-rise pants, so constructed that they did away with the need for a vest...