Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictated recovery. Maurice Thorez has precipitated a 1,500,000 man walkout for higher wages in the hope that either an expanded currency or low production will push inflation to the bursting point. Schuman favors a general wage increase of $32 per month. Unless this much needed salary boost can be instituted without the evil of correspondingly higher prices, the government will come close to accomplishing the Communists' purpose...
Most of the 2,000 delegates had longer memories than aging Phil Murray. They recalled that last year, when Walter Reuther could best have used a boost from Murray, he got a shove instead. What actually happened in the hectic U.A.W. presidential race of 1946 was that Murray had endorsed bumbling R. J. Thomas, stooge of the union's left-wingers. Reuther had won only by the narrowest of margins, and the left-wingers had captured all the union's other top jobs, plus control of the executive board. Phil Murray had gloated: "Reuther has been contained...
...fare increase. Two days later, the new council was having its first plenary session at the City Hall. Glowering, stocky Jean Cristofol, the ousted Red mayor, fixed a baleful eye on Carlini, his Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse; one of them threw a chair at the mayor. A woman Socialist thereupon spattered Communist Cristofol's shirtfront with ink and spat in his face...
...ballyhooing another quarterback. Weeks ago, the West Coast boys began beating drums for a U.C.L.A. end, Tom Fears. When Fears was injured, the drums suddenly stopped throbbing. It was almost too late in the season to proclaim another hero, but U.C.L.A. is now doing its manful best to boost Guard Mike Dimitro. The surest West Coast bet is another end, Southern California's 195-lb. Paul Cleary. Coach
...picture, The Two-Faced Woman (1941), Garbo has kept busy ignoring rumors. In Washington last week, she was back on the screen-thanks to the Thomas Committee's anti-Communist inquiry. At the hearings M-G-M had been criticized for making Song of Russia (1944), a wartime boost for America's Red ally. MGM's comeback was a reissue of Garbo in Ninotchka (1939), a picture that kids the pants off Bolshevik commissars. As soon as prints are ready, Ninotchka will be re-released in most of the nation's larger cities...