Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, when the unions had first made their wage demands, they would probably have accepted. But not now, with the 15? boost for West Coast lumbermen as a spur. Snapped union strike director Charles Millard: "[The seizure] contains the fascist principle of forced labor...
Ever since 1929, the U.S. has backed a highway to the Canal Zone, has aided by small grants to Central Americans. Pearl Harbor gave the project a terrific boost.*U.S. Army engineers poured in some $40 million, accomplished little. The P.R.A., with some $23 million, did infinitely more. Central American Governments matched 50% of P.R.A. contributions where they could. Mexicans, who pay for their own roads, speeded...
...this ad in the Tulsa Tribune last week a merchant angrily said his say against the flood of rising food prices in the U.S. While Congress still wrangled over OPA (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), most manufacturers held the line on prices, worried lest a sudden boost bring back OPA with a rush. But food was something else again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gravely reported that its food index had jumped 16.1 points last week alone. And with commodity prices rising all along the line, chances were that food would continue to rise...
...spring wire, skilled labor, glue and leather, furniture production was up slightly over 1941. Although manufacturers still had their customers on quotas, allotments have been upped. Prices were still steady. Many of the orders placed last week were at OPA ceilings. But many a buyer predicted a wholesale price boost of 15 to 20% within 60 to 90 days. If retailers expected to absorb this expected boost, they were saying nothing about...
...only major report on clothiers so far concerned J. Press, who attributed its $15 boost as due to increased cost of fabrics although the trade at large had not expected upped wool prices to appear in the finished product so soon...