Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deputy Petroleum Coordinator Ralph Davies telegraphed an emergency appeal to nine oil companies to cut gasoline loadings and boost fuel-oil shipments to New England. Reason: winter comes early and stocks there are dangerously...
...threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia for years. Intervention? Not so befogged as the British Raj was Frances Gunther of the onetime writing team of John and Frances Gunther...
...limits; 3) to call on the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator and the Rubber Reserve Company for research and supervision of synthetic-rubber plant construction. He must work out a 100,000-ton increase in butadiene output within six months, build facilities for making 100 million gallons of alcohol, boost the annual output of buna-S all-purpose rubber from 705,000 to 845,000 tons...
Behind all this was a classic example of how honest, realistic labor-management cooperation can bolster worker morale and boost production. Packard's "Work to Win" production drive has boosted production as much as 80% in some departments, has brought in 7,000 worker suggestions on how to increase output. Better still, the scheme has brought Packard labor-management relations to new heights of sweetness & light...
...whole thing started in January when wide-awake, progressive Packard Vice President George T. Christopher began wondering how he could boost output without merely adding more plant or more men. Packard had plenty of war-production experience-it jumped the gun on all other automakers by snagging a British aviation engine contract in 1940. But its operations still lacked the drive needed for its terrific job, turning out endless thousands of Rolls-Royce aircraft engines (for Curtiss fighters) and Packard-designed supermarine engines (for PT boats). So Engine-Maker Christopher cooked up a production-boosting plan, based on the idea...