Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week one very old one was settled (see Labor), and another, in the rubber industry, was avoided when a compromise wage boost was granted...
...story is told in terms of Bolivia's one export crop: tin. For weeks, Bolivia has been dickering with the U.S. Metals Reserve Co. for a 9?-a-pound price boost (to 76?) on the 20,000 tons it ships annually to the tin-hungry U.S. The U.S. finally offered 74?. Then the Argentines (who are granting Bolivia a $62,500,000 loan) stepped in. Argentina contracted for 8,000 tons a year at the Bolivian asking price and agreed to take 12,000 tons more if no other buyers showed...
Speculation, encouraged by heavy Government buying for export, was largely responsible for $3 wheat in the first place. What knocked the price down was 1) a boost in margins and 2) a change in the Government's delivery requirements. It agreed to accept many deliveries wherever the wheat is, rather than at Kansas City, as called for in contracts. This eased the pinch in wheat markets which were being drained of spot wheat for deliveries...
...they had in the past when the chips were down, the Liberals found enough squabbling among the Opposition to boost their slim majority of seats. This time the Social Crediters did an about-face and voted with the Government...
...Methods. Despite some weak spots, CAB is now functioning with a great deal more dispatch than ever before. It is also being a lot tougher. It has indeed dished out some mail-rate boosts to help floundering lines. And it will probably grant an average boost in passenger rates from 4.5? to 5? a mile. An increase in air mail from 5? to 6? is in the offing too. Even CAB thought it had cut rates too fast, led astray by abnormal war traffic...