Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four hours behind closed doors in the committee's gloomy Capitol committee room, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson answered some questions, left more unanswered. Western Europe would get no immediate boost in its military strength: the first year's supplies would simply reinforce established divisions, chiefly with light equipment. But what would the future cost be? Nobody knew. Which nations would get how much? That was up to the discretion of the President and not the countries involved. Significantly, it would be the Secretary of State and not the Secretary of Defense...
...Cannon blast apparently had no influence on the House, one way or the other; it was just a low-order expression in an isolationist side street. When the vote came, the House refused to boost the Navy's air appropriations and rolled through the full $15.9 billion appropriation unchanged...
...Acting President Li wanted the nest egg back. He needed it, he said, to curb inflation-although a lot more was obviously needed for that Herculean task than the Gimo's reserve. Li also wanted the treasure to pay Nationalist troops along the Yangtze in hard cash, thus boost their morale. To Fenghua went old Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, governor of Shansi province, to plead with Chiang for return of the funds...
...publishers' "final offer" of a $10-a-week wage boost was rejected three weeks ago by the A.F.L. International Typographical Union, which wanted a $16.50-a-week raise. The 1,500 printers were under no heavy pressure to settle; they got union benefits ranging up to $60 a week. (Some of the strikers had found work in job shops; others had shifted to newspapers in nearby cities.) The publishers were under no pressure to settle either. They had so well ironed out the mechanical wrinkles of printing by Vari-Typers and similar machines that the Chicago Daily News...
Money saved from a sacrifice dinner in the Radcliffe dormitories will boost the Annex freshmen's drive to collect $1000 in three weeks. The freshmen want to bring a DP to study in Cambridge next year. They received Dean's Office approval for the move this week, and an okay from the dorm students in an informal vote last night...