Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vegetables. The packinghouse workers' complaint was an old one. They were among the lowest-paid workers in any mass-production industry. They had had a total 35? boost since the war; they wanted 29? more. The packers had countered with an offer of 9? The C.I.O. union elected to fight...
...wonder just what Wall Street would consider encouraging news to investors. In midweek they found out. President Truman's speech to Congress, which seemed to promise a baby armament boom, started stocks moving up. At the same time, the prospects for earlier passage of ERP promised a boost to sagging exports; and the hope that the income-tax cut could probably be passed even over a presidential veto promised to help business all along the line...
Granting that students must accept the inevitability of the tuition boost, it is at the same time imperative that the College accept the increased responsibility toward students that the boost will involve. To begin with, the administration must exert every effort to keep the rise as small as possible. It must then set up competent machinery to deal fairly and generously with hardship cases caused by this rise. It must maintain the standards of its Student Employment Office at the very highest level. And finally, it must administer its scholarship funds, some of which have grown substantially during...
When it started bargaining last fall on a new contract, the New England unit (around 12,000 members) of the C.I.O.'s United Shoe Workers of America loudly demanded a raise of 15? an hour. Last week it quietly signed a contract with 90 Massachusetts factories without a boost in pay, thus became the first big union to forgo a raise this year...
...Though the industry had declared that the boost would not affect finished steel, Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. had already found it necessary to boost the price of one finished product (carbon steel strip) by $10 a ton. "It would appear likely," observed the Justice Department, "that other purchasers of semi-finished steel products will find it necessary to do [the same], namely, to pass on these increases to the consumers...