Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admitted that some "adjustments" in rent controls might be necessary. Last week OPA's advisory committee suggested the adjustment: 1) no ceilings at all on new construction or reconversions; 2) no further controls where landlords offered one-year leases at a 15% increase; 3) a straight 15% boost across the country...
Such legislation would place the demands of one group of citizens above the welfare of the whole nation, which would suffer from the inflationary boost given the country's economy by such action. All too many veterans are attempting to justify their requests for more money by the shallow assertion that now that the country has "had enough" and seems about to return to unfettered laissez-faireism, the grab bag is open, and it is every man for himself. But this is still one nation, and an intelligent, progressive program for the future can be carried through only...
...Philadelphia was about to give local musical talent a boost. Soon to be played there for the first time was a newly discovered quartet for strings written by a neglected Philadelphia composer: Benjamin Franklin...
...boost profit margins, General Mills had long been looking for a chance to get into another kind of manufacturing. So when vice president Arthur D. Hyde, 44, research and mechanical divisions' boss, came up with three likely looking products, General Mills jumped. Besides the new iron, Art Hyde designed a new kind of pressure saucepan and a new kind of automatic coffeemaker. The saucepan, ready for production, will go to market next...
...inadequacies. The routine run on restaurant and sales jobs in the Boston area has grown with the realization that only outside the University can the undergraduate find an hourly wage rate high enough to cover spiralling expenses. The average $.75 hourly rate on the outside is a big boost over the University's $.55 But the convenience of University jobs, plus the possibilities of combining study with work, makes this type of employment the logical answer to the individual student's needs...