Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doughty, able Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson asked the provincial legislature for authority to raise a loan of $10,500,000, then to embark on an ambitious project to buttress Manitoba's basic agricultural economy with new and expanded industries. If he got the loan, he proposed to add $5,500,000 more which the Government had laid aside out of tidy wartime surpluses...
...Spendthrift. What Premier Garson, one of the few non-farmers to head the farmer government of Manitoba, wanted to do now was to exploit the northland, add a few amenities to farm life. He proposed to spend...
...whole system, including numerous smaller dams and power plants, will cost about $250,000.000, and will add about 700,000 acres to the irrigated land of Palestine, making room for two million new settlers. JVA's sponsors declare that their projects will make the Holy Land as prosperous and productive as it was in the lifetime of Jesus...
Stabilizer Bowles partially placated the auto industry with a boost in car ceilings, to take care of rising wage and material costs. From now on, new car buyers must agree to add the increase, when OPA decides on the amount, to the price of their car. Reflecting auto wage increases, the first boost may be 5%. Price of a Ford Tudor Sedan, for example, would be increased by $45. Eventually, as the new wage policy boosts costs all along the line, automen expect the increases to run as high...
Down to Earth. To step up production of low-cost cotton materials and clothing, OPA granted textile mills increases which will bring them $250,000,000 more a year, add 5 to 15% to the prices of shirts, shorts, etc. OPA also gave a price boost to makers of men's & boys' suits. Now manufacturers who have been hoarding them, waiting for just such an increase, may put them on the market...