Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Semi-anonymous White House assistant...
...varsity whipped Hartford and Detroit yesterday by identical 4 to 1 scores, to move into the semi-finals with teams representing New York, Boston, and Philadelphia...
During a heated debate in Washington on whether District of Columbia dog licenses should be raised from $3 to $5, Virginia's Representative Howard W. Smith sounded a warning: "Cats, semi-wild ones, many with rabies, are roaming Virginia. People are being attacked in their front yards . . . I'm all for doing something about cats, perhaps licensing them. They tell me cats are roaming animals. These wild ones may soon roam into the District...
Over the weeks, Murray had argued the union's case. Not wages but "profiteering, speculation, hoarding" had driven up prices, he insisted. Wages rose only 7.6% nine months after Korea, said Murray, while the wholesale prices of semi-finished goods rose 26.3%. Since 1945, Big Steel's profits after taxes had risen 209%, while wages rose 58%. Moreover, the industry, which has already raised its prices 80% in the same period, did not need another price boost to meet the wage demands. It could pay them from profits...
This seemingly just proposition ignores the fact that steel prices set the price for most durable and semi-durable commodities. If iron ore transportation prices rose, as they would if Canada set its own Seaway toll charges, the price of steel would rise accordingly. Thus, the American public would, in the long run, finance the Seaway--either as taxpayers footing the higher cost of steel bought by the Government, or as consumers, buying durable goods...