Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harrington also had a long-range program that made Chicagoans bug-eyed. By upping streetcar and bus fares from 9? to 10? (El fares would remain at 12?), he hoped to boost the operational earnings of the combined lines, now taxexempt, to about $14 million a year (last year's earnings: $8,000,000 before taxes). With this money coming in to meet depreciation and debt charges, he planned to spend $150 million on modernization. By 1955, if all went well, Chicago would get 2,900 new buses, 600 new streetcars, 1,000 new El coaches...
...cooperative, instructed him to put unitization into effect by Oct. 1. As a unit, the field will be worked by Sohio Petroleum Co., one of the largest of the present operators. By shutting down all the wells that have a high gas ratio compared to oil, Pardee hopes to boost the field's production from a present daily average of 40,000 bbls. to 50,000 bbls. "The time will come," he said, "when new fields will be unitized before the first well is drilled...
...waited more than six hours for the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers to make up its mind about what kind of a contract it wanted at Ford. The union had the choice of a straight 11½? increase plus six paid holidays or a 7?-an-hour pay boost along with a pension plan (TIME, Aug. 11). Ford had the U.A.W. over a barrel; if it failed to sign by midnight, the U.A.W. would be forced to give up its union shop or go to the NLRB for an election on it. At 11:59 p.m. the U.A.W...
...industries account for much of it. Electric light and power companies are in the early stages of a five-year expansion program that will cost $5 billion before it is finished. By the end of next year, oil companies will make additions and improvements worth some $4 billion, a boost of more than 22% in their total investments...
...operating in the District of Columbia were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury yesterday on charges of fixing commission rates for real estate dealers in Washington. The charges followed 15 days after Attorney General Clark's directive to the Department of Justice to seek out and prosecute conspiracies to boost the cost of food, clothing, and housing...