Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other steelmen were much less philosophical over losing their hoped-for price boost. Asked one "spokesman": "How can the industry be expected to increase wages 50% as it has since 1929 and then be permitted to have an increase of but 2% in average steel prices in the same period?" But New York Times Columnist C. F. Hughes pointed out that despite the increased hourly rates the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a decline of 2.6% in the unit labor cost of steel between 1929 and 1939. Furthermore, other Government figures covering part of the period since then show...
...boost pig-iron capacity 10% by building new furnaces would take at least a year, cost an estimated...
Negotiators in the soft-coal tie-up still wrangled. Northern coal operators were ready to grant union demands for a $1-a-day increase in wages (to $7). Southern operators, who have long enjoyed a wage differential and were now being asked to boost wages from $5.60 to $7, were not so willing. But Conciliator John R. Steelman was still brightly confident of an early settlement...
Meanwhile, McKee never forgot that his $37,200 annual salary came from the cash register, not good will. He cut operating costs to the bone, boosted advertising to the limit. Last year his Pacific Power cleared $851,957 v. $77,105; Northwestern Electric netted $460,051 against $32,341 in 1933; Portland Gas earned $236,925 v. 1935's low of $2,333. Even so, the future of electricity in the Northwest clearly belonged to the Bonneville Power Administration. But McKee had a substitute line of goods: gas. He plugged gas for home heating, water heating, cooking and refrigeration...
...Ottawa Agreements of 1932 giving preferential tariff treatment (to Dominion exporters) gave H. R. MacMillan Export Co. a big boost. So naturally Lumberman MacMillan is as loyal to the Empire as to Canada. As the head of Canada's shipbuilding program, he may well have one of the Empire's most important posts...