Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reach higher permanent rank (in 1941 there were only 21 active major generals, six lieutenant generals, one full general) the income with allowances for dependents is around $10,000. Flying pay, parachute pay, foreign-service pay boost these salaries. War creates more temporary high ranks. But the military careerist, whose peacetime responsibilities should be large and whose wartime responsibilities may be awesome, can expect only to die poor...
...midyear compared to $48,000,000 for the same period of 1943. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. netted $20,000,000 v. $15,000,000, Sun Oil Co. pocketed $7,800,000 v. $5,700,000. Eyeing this flowing gold, many a Wall Streeter boldly predicted that the industry may boost its year's earnings 40% over 1943. Cracked one oilman: "We're almost ashamed the way the money rolls...
...subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week charged that U.S. distillers had deliberately planned the U.S. liquor drought in order to boost their profits. The subcommittee, headed by Ne vada's Senator Pat McCarran, and including such men as West Virginia's Harley Kilgore. Utah's Abe Murdock and Michigan's Homer Ferguson, accused the liquor industry of using its self-imposed program of rationing liquor to dealers as a scheme by which many rationed profits for themselves...
...Forswear all Federal sales and excise taxes (except on tobacco, liquor and perhaps gasoline), because such taxes boost the price of goods and reduce sales. Such taxes, say Ruml & Sonne, are deflationary, lit the lowest incomes hardest...
...only real answer is greater production. The original 1944 goal was 17,500,000 heavy tires for civilian and military uses; thus far, production had averaged about 1,200,000 tires a month. To boost production, Rubber Boss Dewey got the Army to release fully trained tire workers over 30, and stepped up the pace of the $75,000,000 equipment-expansion program...