Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President put on the pressure. This week, in a hectic night session, the Southern operators suddenly caved in, agreed to a $1 per day wage boost. The South had returned to the union...
Sadly Burdened. As Madam Perkins certified another major dispute to the board, the Administration prayed for better luck. For two months General Motors and the C.I.O. Auto Workers had been negotiating a new contract. Differences narrowed down to union demands for a 10? wage boost and a closed shop; G.M. made a counter-offer of a wage rise, but to a closed shop answered flatly, No. Union leaders finally decided to strike. Last week Madam Perkins tossed this new hot potato over to the board. What the board could do with it was any man's guess. A good...
...Commuters between Detroit and Chicago got a big boost in service with three new trains added to schedules at the same time: the Red Bird and Chicago Arrow on 4¾-hour schedules (Wabash); The Michigan on a 5-hour schedule (Michigan Central...
...years ago the Transcript was given a transfusion of new capital, reorganization, modern format, a price boost from 3? to 5?. But the Transcript, immutably loyal to a vanished Boston, fitted Novelist Marquand's description of Wickford Point: "The whole place was like a clock which was running down, an amazing sort of clock, now devoid of weights or springs or hands, yet ticking on through some ancient impetus on its own momentum...
...more lines to its present five, increase its service from 108 pickups to 345. Simultaneously, other applications have poured into Civil Aeronautics Board from nine other companies, to reach 1,231 more communities in some 25 States from New England to Texas and Minnesota. All ten, if granted, would boost airmail lines from 39,000 to 64,000 miles...