Word: boost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private bone to pick had the steel industry, for the President singled it out along with copper, as one of the commodities which had soared too high. The recent $6-per-ton boost, said he, was far more than was needed to cover increased labor costs. But the American Iron & Steel Institute figures that while higher prices will yield an additional $200,000,000, wages will be up $130,000,000; raw materials $85,000,000, leaving the industry $15,000,000 the worse. These calculations were on the basis of 1936 operations. With steel production now running...
Meantime the No. 1 U. S. papermaker, colossal International Paper & Power, has also been putting its corporate house in order, and for the same reason: a paper boom. After dragging bottom at $41 per ton, newsprint prices were increased slightly for 1937 contracts but the first real boost did not come until a fortnight ago when International announced a new price of $50 for 1938. A score of U. S. and Canadian newsprint makers promptly followed suit, while London's Lord Rothermere, a papermaking publisher, dispatched this cryptic cable to the Toronto Financial Post...
...Foreign Policy Association. Inc., No. 8 West 40th Street, New York City. Am re-reading that of May 15, 1936, on the U. S. Balance of International Payments. Like TIME, it is clear, curt, complete; essential reading for the alert citizen who wants to know the facts. The boost for Foreign Policy Association is merely incidental: I am not a member. RALPH W. WESCOTT...
...more mileage per car per year have complemented technological improvements. Current competition is relatively peaceful after years of cut-throat warring among the Big Four. Last week, even before the International Rubber Regulation Committee met in London, U. S. tiremen unanimously and harmoniously raised prices 6%, the fourth boost in nine months...
English, usually the leader in concentration compilations, gives way to Government, Economics, and History this year as 1940 men boost Economics and Government to a leading tie of 124 concentrators each. While Government rose from 105 concentrators to 124, English fell from...