Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raises of $300 for any of the state's 72,000 teachers who have not had that much in pay raises in the past year and a half. They recommended new minimums of $2,000, which for the state's lowliest paid meant a whopping 67% pay boost. Cost to New York...
...hackles of big-city mayors two months ago by proposing to bear half the cost of all airport projects up to $2,000,000. For bigger projects, CAA would scale down its help below the 50%. CAA thought that what the U.S. needed was more smaller airports to boost private flying. But big-city mayors, led by Chicago's Ed Kelly, argued with a great deal of truth that what the country needed was bigger & better airline terminals to relieve dangerous congestion at existing airports...
...When the dollar price of gold was being forced up in 1933, the daily quotation was set by the President in a bedside conference with Morgenthau and RFChairman Jesse Jones; the figures were often arbitrary, and once the President agreed to a 21? boost because "it's a lucky number-it's three times seven...
Lunenburg Sea Products, Ltd., the biggest fleet owner, readily agreed to the idea of the 60-40 lay, which would boost a crewman's average earnings by roughly $400 a year. But Lunenburg balked at paying certain small operating expenses (e.g. the maintenance of a medicine chest on each boat), and insisted that these come out of gross earnings before...
Both sides-Joe's men and the Communists-shouted "Mutiny." They called off the fight long enough to march in a body on the ship owners to demand a 25% wage boost. But this was only a truce in the face of the common enemy, as they...