Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark Spots. Detroit's automakers, still in low gear, turned out only 47,000 cars and trucks last week. This week, output should increase and next week jump, thanks to a big boost when Ford gets back into production. But no one was even guessing when automakers would reach their 1941 figure of 130,000 units a week. Packard's George Christopher solemnly warned that the CPA order on steel (and another priority system upcoming on iron castings and pig iron) may cut all car production again to a dribble. And the industry was still plagued by suppliers...
...cheap. In its two socialist years Saskatchewan's budget (on revenue account) has soared from $30,000,000 to a proposed $40,000,000 for 1946-47, though it still boasts a small surplus. Revenues have gone up enough, thanks to good business conditions, to meet the budget boost. The trouble will come when business slackens...
...stoppage was part of a dizzy disruption caused by an OPA boost in grain ceilings early in May. On May 11, the Board of Trade stopped all trading in old futures contracts (i.e., promises to buy or sell grain at a future date) except at old ceilings...
They watched Chester Bowies' price line buckle again as Bowles reluctantly granted price increases in milk, butter and cheese which he estimated would cost the public an annual $250 million. They listened as U.A.W.'s Chrysler workers, who had won an 18½? wage boost in January, served notice of another wage demand. The Washington economists, who had hoped they could prevent a boom & bust, saw the spiral still spiraling upwards...
...them will be used to rebuild Unilever plants on the Continent, although they were comparatively little damaged. Some will go to pay N.V. stockholders a whopping back dividend of 29.6%, announced last week. Probably Unilever Ltd., which has never missed a dividend (10% in prewar years), will now boost its wartime rate...