Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...panel was busy studying more than 3,000 pages of evidence in the Little Steel case. Steel workers' flat demand was for a $1-a-day boost. Though it will be several weeks before the Board is ready to make its decision, which will have far-reaching effects, Davis made some prophetic observations...
...Petroleum Corp. In July 1940 he heard the drone of warplanes, pulled on his harness again and went back to the Air Corps. (He had been a major in the Reserve during the decade.) He needled the Allison engine plant for production, got results. He studied manufacturing techniques to boost plane output. Once he took time off to pin newly won wings on the uniform of Jimmy Jr., at a Texas training field...
...announcement was no surprise. The deal got a boost on Dec. 7 when heroic Doris Miller, Negro messman aboard the Pearl-Harbored Arizona, manned a machine gun, blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. The idea speeded up when Joe Louis handed $89,00 fight proceeds to Navy Relief, was practically clinched when Wendell Willkie urged the Navy to drop its anti-Negro rule...
...naval ordnance plant advertised in the Detroit papers for "A1 toolmakers-age limits 45 to 98 years." Hudson is glad it did: at week's end scores of alert, experienced, comparatively young men had signed up. With these men at work, the company expects an immediate boost in production, a cut in training costs. Said the plant personnel boss: "Hell, we'll take them up to 100 years old if we can get them...
...encourage oil production in the Eastern States-and thus get more oil where it is needed most-OPA lifted Pennsylvania grade crude-oil prices 25? a bbl. (about 10%). To offset higher transportation costs (by rail instead of tanker), OPA also approved a ½?-a-gallon boost in Atlantic coast retail gasoline prices (except in Florida and Georgia...