Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steel. To help offset the boost in wages granted in December to steel workers, steel producers were allowed to make another increase in their prices. Last week OPA approved a price rise of $1 a ton for pig iron. In theory, this $60-odd million markup was simply a bookkeeping transaction; most steel companies make their own pig iron, thus will bill themselves for the added cost. But in good bookkeeping practice, this big hike in the cost of steels' raw material must be translated into higher costs of the finished product...
...than Madison Square Garden's). Fast-finishing Army last week whirled by Pittsburgh (71-to-51), then dumped Rochester (79-to-42). Their captain (and football halfback), Dale Hall, leading scorer in the East last season, has flicked in no less than 142 points in ten games, to boost his team's scoring average to 60.9 against their opponents...
...grown-up quiz program outgrew the lonely forenoon and joined the busy night air last week. A rising chorus of fan mail persuaded BBC and the Blue network to shift their Transatlantic Quiz from Saturday mornings to 10 p.m. Tuesdays (E.W.T.), and to boost the show from 15 minutes to a solid half hour. In its new spot Transatlantic will compete with Bob Hope-but the audience appeal is hardly the same...
Inflation Ahead? This time the reason for the boom was plain: "Everybody has too much money." Everybody was also trying to hedge against inflation. A few weeks ago, traders were willing to bet that the line against inflation could be held. But last week, eyeing the boost in steel prices and textile wages-and the threatened cutbacks in civilian production-they sank their cash in common stocks and, in effect, bet that they would keep rising along with any general rise in prices...
...want her to lose running my way." The lone filly in a field of 13, Happy Issue was several lengths behind in the early running, but closed fast-Frenchy's way-to break the mile-and-a-quarter Hollywood Park track record set by Challedon in 1940, and boost her earnings for the year...