Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the delegates of 21 nations at the World Wheat Conference in London had talked themselves dry. Most of them wanted arbitrarily to boost the export price of wheat 10%. Leaders of this faction were three great wheat-sellers: Canada, Australia and the U. S. Drought in those lands had reduced the wheat crop, already boosted the price. Last August's Conference had given them such adequate export quotas for the current year (Canada: 200,000,000 bu.; Australia: 105,000,000; the U. S.: 47,000,000) that they were willing to give up part of them...
...giving Loughlin support Franny Gleason deserves the biggest boost. All year Gleason has been amazing the fans by his miraculous running catches out in left field. On Saturday he reached his peak by grabbing a tons fly just as it came shifting through the branches of a tree that obstructed the far side of the pasture. Then, too, Hraman Gibbs had to take a nose dive under the score
...income (after personal exemptions) of more than $4,000 and grade up to 59% on incomes over $1,000,000. (Old law: surtaxes began at 1% on net income exceeding $6,000 and graded up to 55% on incomes over $1,000,000.) Effect of these changes is to boost taxes on income from dividends which are exempt from the normal tax but not from surtaxes. The surtax brackets are arranged to scale up more steeply so that men with incomes between $25,000 and $1,000,000 will pay more. Increased revenue from normal and surtax changes...
...many months there have been large-interests on the long side of the Chicago grain market. President Roosevelt had vowed to boost commodity prices first and at any cost in behalf of the farm producer. Last June wheat ran above $1 per bu. for the first time in three years. But even inflation talk, crop damages and drought could not hold it there, with the result that the long interests grew increasingly impatient. Mr. Morgenthau's pronouncement on rye pulled the plug in the holding dyke. There was not much sense in a heavy long position, traders argued, when...
...year. 2) A flat additional tax of 10% (to last for one year) on all personal income taxes after they have been calculated in the ordinary way-to yield $55,000,000. 3) A new estate tax, cutting exemptions from $50,000 to $40,000 and boosting the scale from a top of 45% to a top of 60% (on estates over $10,000,000)-to yield $90,000,000. 4) A boost of the surtax so that it will begin at 3% instead of 4% and make corresponding boosts in all the income brackets between...