Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army believes in flying nurses, not only for their special training but also for their morale value. The Navy staffs its hospital planes with doctors and enlisted men only. At Guadalcanal the Navy found that wounded marines got a sufficient morale boost from the simple fact that in an hour or so they were whisked from battle to quiet...
...practice, to avoid transfers of large sums, the captor government pays only a nominal personal allowance. The British will pay Arnim $16 a week; the balance of his salary of about $150 a week will be credited to his account in Germany. Messe, who got a boost in rank and pay just be fore his capture, will draw about $30 a week. British officer prisoners in Germany and Italy also get cash allowances; after the war the nations are to reimburse each other for the sums advanced...
...policies "which balance supply & demand, and allow a steady rate of expansion to the most efficient producers." When in Rome. Fact was that the conference was hamstrung. The U.S. was its host, but the U.S. has also been one of the worst offenders in the matter of trying to boost agricultural prices through artificial restrictions...
...Ignoring the "Little Steel" formula, a National Railway Labor Panel emergency board recommended to the President an 8?-an-hour wage boost for over one million nonoperating railroad employes...
Nothing makes you feel as good as a letter from home or from friends. (And, certainly, nothing makes you feel as bad as not getting one.) One letter can boost your morale 100 percent, and usually does...