Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though Sav-Way is strictly a war baby, Saffady is unworried about the future. He expects to boost his gross another $1,500,000 this year to $6,000,000; he also expects to cut his prices so his net will remain the same, and thus save him the bother of renegotiation. At war's end he expects most of his present business to vanish. Then he will simply riffle through his inventions, decide which ones can be made easily in his plants. He will farm out the rest. But he has no intention of expanding beyond his present...
Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who mortally fears a U.S. oil shortage, wanted a boost in crude oil prices in order to spur production. Economic Stabilizer Fred M. Vinson, fearful that this might squeeze about $500,000,000 more from the U.S. consumer, flatly refused. Still Mr. Vinson agreed that the price of oil in many a U.S. field is too low. Last week, OPA came up with its routine solution: a subsidy for the oil industry. Estimated cost per year...
Little of the subsidy cash would go to the big integrated companies. (They and the Oil Congressmen prefer Mr. Ickes' plan for a price boost.) OPA tailored its plan to fit only the small operators of the 200,000 "stripper" wells-the marginal producers who turn out some 15% of all U.S. oil. Squeezed between rising costs and OPA's ceilings many a stripper has been forced to plug his wells and go out of business. And once plugged, the wells are often ruined by salt water seepage...
...from Basic English, Winston Churchill gave Basic another boost,* this time in the House of Commons...
...great mass of corporations, both in & out of war work, many failed to boost gross fast enough to outrace rising costs. Typically, F. W. Woolworth turned in an alltime high of $439,009,000 in sales. Burly, shrewd Charles Wurtz Deyo, 63, Woolworth's up-from-the-ranks president, who broke the 10?-top-price tradition back in 1932, found that this backbreaking upshove in gross was not enough. Woolworth profits sank to $21,952,000 v. $23,539,000 in 1942. General Electric fared little better. It announced a record volume...