Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thursday, wheat and corn again tumbled the limit and securities slumped some more. Then Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson, whose boss has been sounding off about high prices, did what seemed to be his flap-jawed best to keep them up. He announced that the Government might boost its export buying by an additional 50 million bushels of wheat...
American Help. It was still too early to tell whether Mayer's drastic program would boost exports, stop domestic inflation, and bring hoarded gold and dollars out of hiding to bolster the country's monetary system. Said Mayer: he would need about four months before he could tell whether the program would work...
Indian Giver. Northwest Airlines asked CAB for permission to rebate 5% of the fare on flights more than half an hour late in arriving. But the offer had an Indian-giving feature: the line also asked CAB for a fare boost of 8%, the third increase, if granted, within a year...
Hats Outside. The group interests of Los Angeles' promoters often conflict with their private interests. Last year the Chamber campaigned for more highways, to be financed by a boost in the gasoline tax. Oilmen who are members of the Chamber not only opposed the idea, they spent thousands to fight it. Chamber President Clarence Beesemyer is an oilman himself (vice president of General Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.). But he helped the Chamber fight the program through the state legislature...
...highly dangerous to mix politics with the complex problems of national finance. Any tax cut in the near future must be one not made with a view to its vote-getting consequences, and preferably one that would actively encourage savings. A bill that can be a boost to inflation smacks of a frightening irresponsibility in high places...