Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were almost more angry about method than money. The Brotherhoods are the orderly conservatives of U.S. unionism, with a long tradition of protocol in wage negotiations. Their pleas for a wage boost had been shunted about for more than a year. They had spent 45 years building their framework of bargaining, only to have Franklin Roosevelt personally take over their troubles a day before they were to argue their case before their long-established National Mediation Board. To the three holdout unions (who made clear that they had only "postponed" their strike), this was "changing the rules...
...pistol barrel of defeat, would neither surrender, die in battle, nor kill himself. Instead, he would gather a picked staff of Nazi Party chieftains. Wehrmacht generals and technical geniuses, then lead them in a giant submarine flotilla to Japan. There he would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well, the Allies would fall to fighting among themselves, their power would disintegrate, and Hitler would return for the triumphant reconquest of Europe...
...controlled inflation." The Administration will probably permit a general wage increase of 6 or 7%, will then try to hold that line with some new bulwark. The new wages will add nearly $5,000,000,000 to the nation's payroll, will give the cost of living another boost by raising purchasing power and manufacturing costs (e.g., the Lewis raise will force coal prices up an estimated...
...takes to make a feared and respected slinger of the pen; the Friendly Editors will supply in concentrated lessons what you lack in experience. In Harvard's only course in journalistic style, all comers will learn how to be gentle, how to be sentimental, how to boost subtly a pet idea, and, last but not least, how to don the silver armor (which hangs freshly polished, semperparatus, behind the Managing Editor's desk) and ride roughshod over the tyrants of University Hall and drive the money changers from Lehman. They will be received in the dressing rooms of stars...
Almost a thousand more civilians will be enrolled in the University post-graduate schools, as more draft-exempt students boost lagging figures by taking up the study of engineering, law, arts and sciences, dentistry, public administration, and education. The Divinity School will enroll 75 4-D's, while the School of Public Health will cater to 40 students...