Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official was heard to remark: "She gets less things done wrong than anyone I ever ran into." One of the things she got done was a boost in salaries, which endeared her to the faculty. She settled firmly into the president's chair, surveying the academic world with snapping brown eyes and an air of self-sufficiency...
...said RCA, NBC, Zenith, General Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, FM Broadcasters Inc.-the move to a higher band might delay FM's postwar development, might make the present 500,000 FM sets useless, boost the price of new receiving sets, necessitate equipment changes...
Although some 4,000,000 workers in the textile industry, Southern railroads, and service industries, etc. are now eligible for increases, WLB estimates that only about 750,000 may eventually get them. The reason: regional labor boards can hand out raises only if the increases do not boost retail prices or the cost of materials bought by the Federal Government...
...cure-all for the overall manpower shortage. There are too many industries where the product is redesigned so often, as a result of battle experience, that there is not time enough to set up average-production standards. Nevertheless, WPB is dead certain of one thing: incentive wages could boost production in many more plants...
Detroit A.A.s give credit for the broadcast project to 62-year-old William Edmund Scripps, big boss of the Detroit News and WWJ. He was so impressed by A.A.'s reformation of a drunkard friend that he decided to do what he could to boost the organization's Detroit membership (now nearly...