Word: boosted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the National War Labor Board granted Western Union Telegraph Co. employes a 21% wage raise last year, the company went deep into the red. That made no difference to WLB. So Western Union appealed to the Federal Communications Commission, which granted a 10% overall boost in rates for one year to help Western Union...
...Sunday the Herald modestly followed up with a 440-page issue. Bow-tied Publisher Choate was too smart to clutter it with trite messages of congratulation, carried only one-from Harry Truman. The "Boost New England" theme made the kind of Chamber-of-Commerce play that brought in more than enough ads to pay for the jumbo issue...
...Potato production in 1943 reached an all-time high of 464,999,000 bushels, there was plenty for all. But last week the Government was reaping a bumper crop of wastage from the seed it had so generously sown. Perfect weather and DDT combined with the Government incentive to boost this year's crop to a near-record...
Against this backdrop, the status of the Russian Baptists looked fine to the visitor from Atlanta. Baptist missionaries had struggled hard since the 18th Century to break the monopoly of the Russian Orthodox Church, finally succeeded in getting a real foothold only 40 years ago. Their biggest boost came during the revolution, when the Reds used them to undermine Orthodoxy...
...backward look by the Bureau of Labor Statistics etched the meaning of a trend of little boosts. The pre-wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities had risen a thumping 22.4% since the beginning of July. One big boost still stuck. From June 15 to July 15 retail food prices had soared 13.8%, the largest monthly jump in the 43 years since the Bureau had been keeping tab on them. (Actually, the real price to the consumer did not go up quite as much because of the abolition of subsidies on decontrolled products, which he must no longer pay via taxes...