Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salary boost and $50,000 tax free expense money...
Black Ink. Last year Blum's grossed some $3,500,000, and made an estimated net profit of $164,000. Most of it went to Levy, who controls three-fourths of the closely held stock. This year Levy expects to boost Blum's gross to $5,000,000. Next year Blum's will move into a new, block-long, $1,360,000 store and factory cut up into small, friendly little salesrooms. Levy doesn't want to lose that corner-store atmosphere. "We want to keep it the kind of place," he says, "where nobody will...
...rules, the strike of Buenos Aires' newspaper typographers should have been a cinch to settle. Their demand-a 25% wage boost to meet the soaring cost of living-seemed mild enough by recent Argentine standards. But before the week was out, the printers had defied both their officers and the government, and shut down all newspapers in Buenos Aires. In the weird half-light of the resulting news blackout, Argentines watched as shadowy figures pulled & hauled, and Juan Perón's government teetered...
...board, your efforts will got a two-way boost. National, local, and College affairs are in its domain, and here also are the men who can tell pomposity from pizzazz at distances up to a mile...
...beat the shortage, the utility men were well into a $5 billion expansion program, the biggest in their history. Example: California's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was spending $500 million on expansion, part of it to transmit power from the Government's Shasta Dam. It hoped to boost transmission enough so that last year's power shortage would not occur again. In addition, the Government hoped to step up California's Central Valley Project's capacity enough to take care of another big spurt in demand...