Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industry negotiators bounced to the ceiling at Petrillo's initial wage demands, wildly claimed that he was asking a 533% boost in some categories. "Only 533%?" mocked the Czar. "Why not 560%? Those industry guys always say to me: 'Do you want to put us out of business?' And I say, 'No, I wanna be in business with...
...take the clothes back. Some stores that had illegal two-piece dresses were getting around the law by selling them as two separate garments. But most retailers have only the dubious out of snipping the illegal margins off their dresses. This would either 1) spoil the design, or 2) boost the price because of alteration cost. And the snippings would be of no use to anyone...
...Wholesalers will profit by the difference. But cigaret smokers will pay 1? a pack more for all major brands (last week's ½? raise, along with a six-months-old ½? raise which retailers have been absorbing). Cigaret makers did not seem worried lest the price boost seriously cut sales further; they are already well down from their wartime peak...
...exporting unemployment" had now been whittled down to twig-size. But it was an easy concession for the U.S. to make. With wages and other costs skyrocketing, the U.S. might wake up any day and find its own dollar priced too high, might want to devalue it to boost exports...
...circulation gain from 2,100,000 to 3,650,000. But it has taken a terrible beating in advertising-while its competitors, Hearst's American Weekly (circ. 8,804,881) and This Week (8,281,339) have stayed almost as fat as ever. Cause: a poorly timed 60% boost in rates, announced before Motley's arrival...