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...hike in the tax on dividends paid out by private companies. This was Butler's sop to the trade unions, which had promised to hold back on wage demands if dividends were restrained...
INTEREST-RATE HIKE on consumer loans is being considered by big Manhattan banks. Loan demand is so strong that the hike may be as much as ½% on auto, appliance, home-improvement and personal loans...
Canadian newsprint producers argued that they have had to earmark a high percentage of profits for costly mill expansion to add 900,000 tons to Canada's annual capacity, as well as pay out 15% wage increases in the three years and three months since the last price hike. Even though St. Lawrence profits for the first half of 1955 were 37.3% ahead of the 1954 level, President P. M. Fox said: "We have gone beyond [our] ability to absorb increasing costs." At week's end the Justice Department, which has no jurisdiction over Canadian producers, asked...
...Even to keep going with our present enrollment we need new and greater sources of income," Bundy asserted at a Boston press conference. He predicted, therefor, that the College would soon institute its fourth tuition hike since the war, and thereby keep in line with Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, "who are already up around the $1000 mark...
...miles or more from Joe Moore's home across the line in Tennessee. By the time he was ten, his pre-dawn routine included milking eight cows and helping feed the hogs and mules. The big breakfast that followed was easily worked off in a three-mile hike to school. Summers it was full time at chopping corn, suckering tobacco, pitching hay. By the time he was eleven he was plowing a mule to a double shovel, and the next year he was allowed now and then to drive the new tractor...