Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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College extra-curricular activities are in line for a boost from the Council next fall...
...current trend continues," Reynolds declared, some form of boost in board rates will become necessary. As an example of the conditions which led to his prediction, Reynolds pointed to the current strike of moat-packing workers, which he thought might end in a rise in meat prices following a possible wage increase for the striking workers...
Fortnight ago the I.T.U. and the dailies had come to a tentative agreement. The publishers agreed to boost wages to $99 a week for day work, highest I.T.U. wages in the U.S. To play safe, the papers kept their VariType crews working. Then Woodruff Randolph, I.T.U. president, demanded that the I.T.U. be granted jurisdiction over VariType operators. This would make it impossible for the papers to put out a VariType issue if the printers struck. The papers flatly refused. They had no intention of giving up the first method yet found to counter printers' strikes...
Third Time Around. ICC granted Class I railroads an average boost in freight rates of about 4.2%, the third increase since last October (total average increase: 21.4%). Class I railroads stood to add about $300,000,000 to their revenues, which had been sharply cut by increased labor and operating costs...
Come to the Summer School and get in the social swing. That's the tune that George W. Adams, director of the Summer session, is using to boost enrollment at the first series of courses offered since before...