Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were up 64% on the Santa Fe, 42.5% on the Seaboard, 39% for the Atlantic Coast Line, only 22% for the New York Central. But practically all the carriers made good money for the first four months-though their wage increases were already in effect, their compensating freight-rate boost not until March 18. Combined profits of all Class I roads were $149,000,000-almost double last year's $76,299,000. In April, when last year's net was cut by the coal strike, the gain was even more dramatic: $57,900,000 for 1942, against...
...cowcatcher through picket lines, thus broke a strike. In his 1932 annual report he harped: "It is time that eight hours' work be given for eight hours' pay." Late in 1940 he started anew, demanded that the Brotherhoods revise their rules before he considered a 30% wage boost...
...figures studied in that case did not encourage the belief that all the increased cost of living could be covered by a wage boost. "But neither does that preclude an increase of wages to meet part of the increased costs...
...erred. Mr. Roosevelt had said very clearly that the BEW henceforth was to "determine the policies [and] plans . . . with respect to the procurement and production [of materials abroad]." The order had given a boost to Vice President Wallace, Milo Perkins, and their BEW; had thrown State into a dignified dither. The upstart BEW seemed to have been authorized to rush into State's well-kept gardens, trample State's delicate diplomatic plants abroad...
...between Aïdas and Carmens -will be performed in a seven weeks' row -the first cycle of native opera ever to be given in the U.S. Put on in condensed, hour-long versions by Manhattan's station WOR in cooperation with the Treasury Department (to boost war bond sales), broadcast by a nationwide Mutual network (Thursdays, 8 to 9 p.m. E.W.T.), the series is a brainchild of Alfred Wallenstein, WOR's ebullient, businesslike music director...