Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflation?" Economists promptly gave them an answer: "It is not inflation but it is inflationary." Nobody knew exactly how much silver bullion was in the U. S. last week, but it was estimated at around 200,000,000 oz. When the Government takes this over it will tend to boost the world price for silver just as the price of wheat would tend to rise if the Government locked up 200,000,000 bu. Moreover the citizens who last week owned 200,000,000 oz. of silver will, after they have given it up, receive $100,000,000 in cash...
Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss of Nebraska, had traveled to meet Mr. Roosevelt in the Rockies and put that quotation in his ear. For the eloquent Congressman was Nebraska's Edward R. Burke and the President was giving him a backhanded boost to capture Nebraska's Democratic nomination for Senator...
...troubled little baker in Glenns Ferry, Idaho (pop. 1,414), last week was E. W. Nestak. He had been charging his fellow townsmen 9˘ a loaf for fine unsliced white bread when an order came from the NRA Bakery Code Administrator to boost his price to 10˘. Honest Baker Nestak thought it best to obey but he also wrote to his senior U. S. Senator to ask if the order was legal and binding...
...Legal beer helped boost the net profit of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., which has a machine to make 240 bottles a minute, to $4.208.000 for the year ended June 30, 1933. Beer bottle sales were beginning to stabilize when Repeal opened up the demand for wine and liquor bottles which are not regularly refilled. Owens-Illinois' net profit for the year ended June 30, 1934 was up nearly...
...negligible demand from business for long term financing?due to the Securities Act and general fear that the New Deal will limit profits, regulate business, boost costs, compete with established industry...