Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also proposed broadening the individual income-tax base, lowering the married persons' exemption to $1,500 and credit for dependents to $300. But he would tax middle-income groups, "living on relatively fixed incomes," less drastically than Morgenthau advised. Henderson and Eccles both proposed to plug loopholes and boost gift and inheritance taxes...
...receive $30 a month after four months service. But the minimum-wage law puts a floor of around $50 a month under wages. If the trainees were put under the Wage-Hour Law (ignoring the cost of their room & board), all of them would qualify for a pay boost of $20 a month...
Since the defense program began to boost national income, installment sales have risen spectacularly. The Commerce Department's March figure for new automobile financing was up 41.6% from 1940. Outstanding credit arising directly from retail installment sales of all kinds was estimated by the Russell Sage Foundation at year's end as $4,036,000,000, up nearly 25% in twelve months to a new alltime high. By last week the figure was even higher and still rising...
Last week under Cowles management one of the changes for the Tribune papers was cancellation of all liquor ads, effective in 60 days. (The Cowles have a no-liquor advertising policy.) Also, the price of the realigned papers was boosted from 2? to 3?. The morning Tribune's Editor Thomas J. Dillon remained in charge, but the Cowles general staff moved into key positions on the paper: John Cowles as president, John Thompson as vice president and publisher, "Stuffy" Walters as vice president and executive editor. Having got the circulation of the evening Star-Journal...
...allowances rose from $2,855,000 to $7,200,000. But U.S. Steel profits were up $19,446,000 to $36,560,000 (best since 1929) even though taxes were up $16,031,000 to $27,603,000 (highest ever). Since last month's 10?-an-hour wage boost there is slim chance steel profits can hold the pace...