Word: boosted
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...other words, Nathan concluded, U.S. corporations in 1946 made a "lavish profit," and show every sign of continuing to do the same in 1947. Therefore, industry can grant labor a substantial wage boost without raising prices. The total boost could be $5.1 billion for workers in manufacturing plants-in percentage, 21% ever present rates. U.S. business as a whole, he figured, could grant a 25% boost...
...Allies' needs), the Government has looked sourly on heavy export of oil from the Americas. One other prod to the deal was given by Ibn Saud. As oil and pilgrimages to Mecca are his chief sources of income, he has long awaited increased exploitation of his lands to boost his royalties of 22? a bbl. Shrewd old Ibn Saud also knows that more production means more American capital in Saudi Arabia and more work and good wages for his impoverished Arab subjects.* Help for the U.S. Arabian-American can use some financial help to exploit the Arabian pool...
...will benefit more by this happy marriage--Wallace in his desire to have a vehicle from which he can launch his fight anew for "the Roosevelt tradition," or the New Republic in its need to boost circulation and become in itself the leading progressive force in American literary life? But important though this question may be, it is to many practical observers secondary to the still-unanswered, fundamental issue--that of whether Wallace's common men will come to the support of this new venture in enough numbers to make his voice a weekly boom in their behalf...
...Guild strike against Hearst's Los Angeles evening Herald & Express for about the same terms demanded of J. David Stern ended after 83 days. The Guild had asked for a 40% pay boost, settled for 14%. Cried the Herald & Express in a front-page editorial: "It was a senseless strike . . . the workers lost money, the newspaper lost money . . . the public of Southern California was deprived of its greatest daily newspaper...
...increase, which replaced the temporary 6½% boost the roads got from ICC last June, was almost as much as the railroads had asked for in April. They had wanted a general 19.6% rate raise, enough to increase their annual revenues by $1 billion.' Since then the estimates of next year's freight traffic had increased. Now the railroads expect to gross the $1 billion with the 17.6% increase. If traffic holds up, and costs remain the same, the railroads expect to net $250,000,000 in 1947. (Without the increase, they estimated that they would lose...