Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boost war bond sales, Chicago's 40-year-old Belden Manufacturing Co. (insulated wire, etc.) offers to pay its dividends in war savings stamps, beginning with a 37½? payment voted last week for Sept...
...Last April the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that copper, lead and zinc smelting and refining workers averaged $35.18 a week while metal miners averaged $37.28. This compares with $40.22 for steel workers (before their recent wage boost), $45.94 for aircraft workers and $53.30 for shipbuilders...
...more for its 157,000 Little Steel workers. A WLB fact-finding panel, considering only the simpler arithmetic of the demand, found that the companies could afford it: they are so busy now with war orders that all but $2,850,000 of the $47,500,000 annual boost would have come out of excess-profits taxes...
General Electric orders in the June quarter were a whopping $566,250,000, one-quarter larger than its entire annual sales in the boom year 1929. Almost 100% war work, the new orders will help boost GE's 1942 sales to $1 billion or better...
Sure index of pessimism over the U-boat menace was the 5% increase in marine war-risk insurance rates announced last week. The boost lifted rates from U.S. East Coast ports to Egypt via the Cape of Good Hope to 25%; to India, 20%; Australia and New Zealand, 20%; East Coast of South America, 20% ; West Coast of South America...