Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final terms raised the basic pay of workers from 50? to 62? an hour, provided for 16 months of operation at Vultee without strikes on the part of workers, or lockouts on the part of management. Employes lost twelve days' work, $203,240 in wages, gained an annual boost...
Borrowing a new stake, Jesse returned to the stockmarket. For six weeks he watched World War I boost Bethlehem Steel upward until he knew that it was ripe. The day after he climbed aboard it had jumped 45 points. He was hot. Within two years he bulled and beared himself into a profit of some...
...leaving behind warehouses full of equipment. Perhaps by the standards of modern warfare the booty was not great, but to the Greeks, accustomed to eating bean soup and black bread and carrying hand-me-down arms, it was immense. This plunder was, after the strategic factors and the enormous boost to Greek and British morale, the third most important thing about the fall of Corizza. It was said to comprise enough small arms and ammunition to outfit two Greek divisions, more heavy artillery than the entire Greek Army had when the war began. There were 80 field pieces, 55 anti...
When announcement was made three years ago of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships, it was regarded by men of the trade as a possible means of giving American newspaperdom a real boost. The Nieman Foundation offered no cure-all for journalistic degeneracy wherever it might lie. It proposed to do its part toward raising the standards of journalism by taking promising young reporters and editorial writers from every corner of the nation and exposing them for a year to all known data and theory on the practices of the newspaper world. This has been the exact course followed by the Foundation...
First to make ready is Birmingham's godfather, T. C. I. Last week, as Alabama steel mills roared at 100% of capacity (Iron Age said 109%), tall, redheaded, reticent T. C. I. Chief Robert Gregg announced the 18-month expansion which will boost his pig-iron capacity more than 20% to over 2,000,000 tons. Steelman Gregg will add one blast furnace (boosting Alabama's active total to 191, renovate 18 standing open-hearth furnaces, build 70 coke ovens, install a 140-inch plate mill, modernize all mining operations...