Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed a Senate-approved bill authorizing a $5,000 across-the-board pay boost to all federal judges...
Water & Power. The $31,000,000 Republican Dam, which Pick expects to have finished in 1950, will open up 90,000 acres to irrigation, boost farmers' income an estimated $2.5 million a year. That is only a small piece of the whole vast undertaking which covers an area bigger than France, Spain and Italy combined...
...holdings equal 25% of federal monetary reserves, or until the price reaches $1.29 an ounce. But the Treasury has been able to sell silver only if the Silver Bloc is willing. For the last six months the Bloc has not been willing because Congress was not willing to boost the price of silver. Result: silver has been so scarce that the PhotoEngravers Board of Trade of New York went so far as to melt silver dollars to get silver for industrial uses (photographic plates, solder...
Other stocks, hoarded by speculators for the anticipated price boost, will soon be pouring into the market. But the speculators are in for a disappointment: the 90.5? price applies only to new silver mined after July...
...silver, chances are the taxpayer will pay more & more to the greedy Silver Bloc as time goes on. After World War I the world price of silver dropped from $1.37 ½ to 24 ½? an ounce (in 1932). If that happens again, taxpayers and manufacturers will have to boost their ante to the Bloc from 19.4? to 66? an ounce...