Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production, Europe now faced a food shortage of 4.5 million tons in grain alone. If scarcity of U.S. corn meant that farmers would turn to wheat to feed their hogs and cattle, the gap would increase by another two million tons. The committee counted on other exporting nations to boost their quotas, on hungry Europeans to tighten up on their own food-collection systems...
...price of bread zoomed. Last week's removal of all but the last remnants of Canada's wartime* controls sent it up an average of 3? a loaf (biggest reported boost: 6? for a 24-oz. loaf in Timmins, Ont.). It was no help to eat cake. Bakeries were all set to charge more for cake...
There was still plenty of unofficial talk last week about devaluing Canada's dollar to boost exports and curb imports, but it seemed to be only talk. Few in the Government saw devaluation as a cure for the disease. A $500 million "psychological" loan from the U.S. (TIME, Aug. 25) also seemed less attractive now; it would be hard to justify, hard...
With Steep Rock grossing upwards of $8,000,000 a year, Eaton has no intention of cashing in his paper profits. He now plans to open up four more open-pit mines, boost output to 5,000,000 tons in a few years. The Mesabi range is approaching exhaustion and Eaton is sure that he can sell all the ore he can mine for years to come...
...Bedtime Boost. The Pullman Co., now owned by a group of 57 railroads, asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to boost all sleeping-car rates under $17.70 from 1% to 49%. The increases would amount to about $13 million a year. This, said the company, would be little enough considering the drop in annual revenues of $31 million compared with 1944, and a rise in costs of $26 million a year since 1942, the year of its last general fare boost...