Word: boost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks, U. S. copper men have been arguing whether they should boost their price from 9.75? to 10? per lb. Fortnight ago, the idea got a stiff setback when potent Kennecott announced it had plenty to sell at the present price, promptly increased its output 25% rather than take a chance on having a runaway market at a higher price. Last week, U. S. copper men were still wary enough to make no price advance even in the face of the foreign rise, although in the past such an action would have been almost automatic...
...year-old groceryman named Roy McDonald who built up a chain of 50 stores in Chattanooga, wanted to advertise them but thought space rates in the Times and News too high. For some reason, his little Free Press caught the public fancy. Last year it got a real boost when the Times fired Managing Editor William G. Foster to take on Pulitzer Prize Winner Julian Harris (TIME, Aug. 19, 1935). Hired by the Free Press, Editor Foster built up an able staff, last spring brought out a Sunday edition selling for 5?. Last week, the Free Press took the last...
...Schacht was not simply cutting off Germany's nose to spite her face but, in complex fashion, was cutting ultimate U. S. exports to Germany when he abruptly cut German exports to the U. S. by canceling use of the trick marks which he originally devised to boost German exports...
...goods in Germany or could sell them to someone else in his own country who wished to do so. Obviously the foreign creditor could sell his blocked marks only at a discount and the effect of this was the same as a subsidy enabling the German exporter to boost sales by quoting lower prices. As the system grew it became so complicated that Dr. Schacht's books now have entries representing some 20 different kinds of marks in actual use in three broad classifications : the Registered Mark, the Securities Blocked Mark and the Credit Blocked Mark...
...nearby Virginia Beach. Last week, with Stanwurt 4 years old, George von Schilling announced that his sole job from now on was to be his son's manager. Turning up at a music store in Utica, N. Y., where the von Schillings' act was supposed to boost sales, he declared that he and Sousaphonist Stanwurt were bound for Cleveland, hoped for engagements at the Great Lakes Exposition...