Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which forces every member to work at the same speed. Thus while every factory pays piece rates, practically all banding department men earn $7.92 a day, all truck tire builders $8.90 a day. The men could earn more by turning out more units. But when one company wanted to boost the daily stint to 169 tire bands per man per day the union squashed it to 143 per day. Reason: a few men might not make the grade and get less money than others...
Although there is an adequate liquor supply for a medium term war (warehouses bulge with enough to last four years), some changes in drinking habits are on the way. Both gin and blended whiskies will presently disappear. Straight whiskey alone will remain. A proposed $2-a-gallon Federal tax boost would end the sale of popular dollar-a-pint whiskies, forcing many to drink cheap beer and wine...
...liquor companies lose nothing by this deal. Main reason: when they started commercial alcohol production last December they got OPA to boost prices from 24½ ? to 50½ ? a gallon. Results have been fine. Six months' profits of the four biggest distillers-Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, Hiram Walker, National Distillers, Schenley Distillers-jumped 40% to a smacking $14,814,000 after taxes. At the same time combined earnings of 290 bigtime U.S. industrials dropped 35%. Moreover, the liquor industry may get "vacations" from war work to rebuild depleted stocks. Otherwise it might be out of business after...
...board stretched its famed 15% Little Steel formula still further, granted a 5½?-an-hour pay boost, maintenance of membership and checkoff to 250,000 U.S. Steel Corp. workers. But the eight board members representing labor, Government and the public stretched the formula almost to the breaking point when they made the raise retroactive to Feb. 15, ignored a C.I.O.-U.S. Steel fixed-wage contract running through Aug. 9. The four employer members screamed murder, said the majority had destroyed the sanctity of a contract, predicted the decision would "rise to plague" them...
...okayed a wage boost for 400 employes in 13 St. Louis machine shops, then ordered all workers earning over $1 an hour to invest "at least 10%" of their pay in war bonds. This is not as revolutionary as it sounds: both labor and management had agreed to the scheme. But it may set a precedent for "voluntary" forced savings, and it may give unions a lever to pry wages still higher on the ground that the raise would buy war bonds, hence would not be inflationary...