Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid for its first try at bailing out the world with higher prices all around. Everyone, as expected, put the blame on everyone else. Foreign nations blamed the U.S. for the high prices, which had sucked away their cash, without conceding that their buying had helped boost the prices. Corporations took a big cut out of the income pie; net corporate profits after taxes (including the "paper" profits on inventories) of $17.4 billion were up 39% over net profits in 1946. (But corporations still had a smaller share of the total income than...
Reserves to sustain these seven men is a crying need for Berg. Stiff competition for first string positions on any athletic team gives a psychological boost to the entire squad plus giving much needed mid-competition rests for the starters. Berg uses the reserves he has. The big reason for the 59 to 32 lop-sided defeat that the Yearlings handed Nichols Junior College was that Berg boarded reserves during a low scoring first half to spring a fresh and superior quintet on the groggy Nichols five in the last two quarters...
...poll of 28,200 top executives found some 60% expecting the boom to continue at the present level or even higher in 1948. Only 37% expect a moderate downturn (last May 74% expected a slump by year's end). Some 90% expect to keep their present payrolls or boost them. Almost none expects to lower prices in the next six months...
...Rate-Boost. U.S. railroads, out for higher rates all around, got a sop from the ICC. It granted the roads a 25% temporary increase in mail rates. The increase, estimated to yield the railroads more than $32,000,000 a year, will remain in effect until ICC acts on their request for a permanent 45% hike in mail...
...present, Clipson is trying to get into large-scale production while fighting off eager customers. Britons hope that his super-plaster, which permits builders to cut all sorts of corners, will boost the government's lagging housing program. In due course, non-Britons may stand in line for exports or patent licenses...