Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-man strike committee last week demanded a wage boost from $12 to $20 a month, an increase in clothing allowances from $40 to $48 a year. The boss said no. When the committee insisted that the boss could well afford the increase, the boss called the cops, had the committeemen ejected from the premises. Nobody invoked the Wagner Act. The committeemen were monks, the boss was the abbott of the ancient Coptic Christian monastery of Moharrak, 250 miles south of Cairo...
William F. Carroll, Government mediator and Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge, had tried hard to reconcile the miners' demands ($1.40 more a day) with the operators' offer of $1 a day, contingent on increased production. Mediator Carroll recommended a pay boost of $1.40 a day, plus more production. The extra 40?, he said, must come from an increased Government subsidy since a higher coal price would "interfere most gravely with effective transition to a peacetime economy." But the miners thumbed down the recommendation as a "mere incentive bonus...
...Interisland shipping has been slowly reconstructed, although beef from southernmost Mindanao is still being flown to Manila because of the lack of refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain...
...first big batch of returns came in last week. And U.S. industry found that, despite strikes, shortages and controls in 1946, actual profits lived up to the great expectations. The big boost came in the final quarter of 1946. Then, the Department of Commerce estimated, production had increased to such a peak that the national income (wages, rents, net corporate profits, etc.) was at a rate of $173 billions annually v. $164 billions for the whole year...
...There were other companies still losing money because of 1) low production caused by material shortages or 2) rising costs. And with the seller's market turning into a buyer's market, manufacturers were afraid to boost prices higher. But even some of the laggards were suddenly doing well. Western Union, which had cried recently that it could not help but go into receivership, turned in a profit of $500,000 in the last quarter...