Word: soares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highest in the U.S. (3.3%) ; Idaho decided to begin deducting state income tax from paychecks. Gasoline taxes, levied by all 48 states, are going up from an average of 5.6? a gallon to 5.9?. The total state tax take for fiscal 1956, assuming a continued strong economy, will soar well over $12 billion. That will represent an increase of more than 275% since...
...slogan come true. They livened up the Trib with crusades against crime and political corruption, lured in more readers with some of the first serial comic strips (Moon Mullins, The Gumps, Little Orphan Annie) ever printed in a U.S. daily. They watched the paper's circulation and profits soar, bought vast Canadian pulp forests and a fleet of vessels that still supply the Trib with paper. But the cousins seldom saw eye to eye. Though he bitterly condemned the idle rich, Bertie reveled in his own aristocratic background; Patterson, a turtleneck sweater man at heart, rebelled against it, became...
Profits of airlines and aircraft builders continued to soar. Curtiss-Wright Corp. more than doubled 1953's fourth-quarter earnings, to $7,922,497; American Airlines raised 1953'-fourth-quarter profits...
...push the Dow-Jones industrial average as high as 500, nearly a 25% rise, predicts FORTUNE. Barring war and no recession worse than the 1953-54 slump, stock dividends will jump 48% by 1957, and 65% (to a total of $16.5 billion) by 1959. Gross national product will soar an estimated 16% to $440 billion in the next four years...
...years, the birth rate has shot up 88%, hitting 3,900,000 in 1953. If the same percentage of young people go to college by 1970 as at present (about 30%), enrollments will jump 75% to 4,219,047. Should the college percentage increase to 40%, enrollments might soar to well over 5,000,000. Thus, says Registrar Ronald Thompson of Ohio State University, "it is no longer appropriate to debate the extent of the need. The children have been born . . . We in higher education have just a few years in which to put our house in order...