Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms: a 2½?an-hour increase (added to the 16? boost previously offered) in lieu of changes in working rules for one year (see Labor...
From Washington came one ray of hope. The Wage Stabilization Board gave copper producers approval to use a wage increase (not to exceed 18½? an hour) as a basis for a boost in prices. Up till then the strike-bound mining companies (Kennecott, Phelps Dodge) had refused to meet demands for an 18½? boost. The present 12?-a-lb. copper ceiling price, they maintained, was too low to meet these demands. To take care of this, OPA is expected to announce a boost in the copper ceiling price to 14.32? this week-enough, it hopes, to absorb...
They had been caught unawares. They had thought he was going to be sweetly reasonable. They had thought they could settle for at least an 18½ wage boost. They were ready to make a lot of other concessions. Then John Lewis attacked...
...year pay boost for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...
Normally able to make both ends meet and also have a substantial reserve, the Department has experienced a 72 percent rise in food costs since 1942, and a wage boost of about 100 percent for general help, with raises in the pay and numbers of doctors and nurses scheduled for the near future...