Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silver, stagnant at 40? an oz. in wartime, had leaped to 71.11? last January when the Canadian ceiling was lifted, and again had bounded to 90.5? on the new U.S. price boost (TIME, July 29). For established silver producers like big Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., which turns out 55% of Canada's 13 million oz. a year, this was heaven on earth. For hundreds of mines, abandoned when silver plummeted to around 30? an oz. in the '30s, it could mean revival...
...make dictatorship look like democracy. And internationally, he could count on some support from the Communists who control labor unions. Vicente Lombardo Toledano's C.T.A.L. (Latin American Workers' Federation) had taken in Trujillo's fake labor unions last year, was expected to give him a fresh boost of some kind any minute. Already the strong, communist-dominated Cuban Federation of Labor had promised to send delegates to Trujillo's Dominican Labor Congress...
...directors of Republic Steel Corp. decided to give rough-&-tumble Board Chairman Tom Girdler a $51,000 boost over his regular $175,000 salary. At first they gave it to him in the form of an annuity, which they thought was exempt from taxes. But when the Board of Tax Appeals ruled that the sum was not exempt, Tom Girdler surrendered the annuity for cash...
Decrying a $15 increase in the rental price of dormitory rooms and a $100 boost in tuition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology student veterans declared, in a special edition of their paper, "Veterans View," that "All of these increases place the student, veteran and non-veteran alike, in a terrible squeeze...
Most of the noise came from representatives of 27 unions protesting last week's layoff of 450 Disney employes, almost half the studio's staff. Replied General Manager John F. Reeder: the new pay schedule (a 25% increase-an estimated $1 million-a-year boost in the payroll) put into effect on the demand of the Screen Cartoonists Guild would not allow the studio to keep on going full blast with a reasonable hope of profit. Work would have to stop, said he, on all but four feature productions (Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free...