Word: boosted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Washington debated: what to do? With almost monolithic stubbornness, Harry Truman still insisted that the thing to do was to boost taxes $4 billion. Apparently almost no one in Congress agreed with him. The most notable dissent last week came from a New Dealing liberal, Illinois' greying freshman Senator Paul Douglas, onetime professor of economics...
Owners of small structures (four dwelling units or less) whose net operating income from rents is less than 25% of their total yearly take will be allowed to boost their return to 30%. Example: A landlord takes in $1,000 a year in rents, spends $800 of it for labor, taxes, fuel, depreciation, etc. His profit is $200, so the Government will let him boost his rent enough to raise his profit from 20 to 30%. He will be allowed to raise his gross rents to $1,143, for a profit of $343. Owners of larger structures will be allowed...
...made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy.") At a union meeting in the church basement, after Mass, the strikers were asked if they wanted to continue the blockade. There was a unanimous "Oui." Then the men piled...
...become surplus. The Federal Reserve Board, for the fourth time in three months, eased credit restrictions. It reduced bank reserve requirements 1% and 2%, depending on the size of the bank-thus freeing about $1.2 billion extra cash for lending. But FRB's move was not likely to boost the volume of loans: businessmen had carefully cut their borrowing by $1.5 billion in the last 14 weeks...
...metal called "Duridium" (a hard-alloy steel). With it, Dammann was out to crowd Gillette's famed Blue Blade out of the No. 1 spot in the blade market. Dammann planned to spend $2,000,000 on the promotion campaign because his company needed that kind of boost. In this year's first quarter its profits had dropped from...