Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved for use all through the U.S. ; this year it has extra importance because it has all but crowded out open-pollinated corn in the corn belt...
First is an all-out attempt to boost farm prices by changing the bases for calculating the farm parity (although farm income now is 15% above parity), busting loose OPA and its price ceilings...
...idea is to hold prices to current levels as far as possible, but there will be changes: some stores on high margins will be cut to lower ceilings; others with exceptionally low margins will be allowed to boost prices...
...squeeze, Paul McNutt will have to do some fancy juggling, make some tough decisions. Two facts affecting all the people emerged: dependency will soon be out as the sole reason for military deferment, many more women will have to go to work in war industry-perhaps enough to boost the total from the present...
...mill could roll plates twice as thick and 40 in. wider than anyone else. So the Navy placed orders for battleship armor up to 9½ in. thick, welded marine-engine blocks and submarine parts; the Army ordered light tank armor, antiaircraft gun bases, other fabricated steel parts. To boost output faster Defense Plant Corp. okayed a $25,000,000 plant expansion (total plant in 1940: $8,385,000). Result: in 1939-42 Lukens almost tripled employment to 6,000, quadrupled sales to $47,000,000, multiplied net profits almost 20 times to roughly $1,500,000-a record...