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1995 Sunday New York News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25

1994 N.Y. Daily News increases prices to 50 cents

1992 New York City transit fare increases from $1.15 to $1.25

1987 Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record)

1979 Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland

1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz

1970 Unemployment in U.S. increases to 5.8 percent

1962 U.S. steel industry forced to give up price increases

1949 President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents

1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9

1861 Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years

1837 Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9



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