Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backlog of other legislation gathering dust in Congress affected all the services equally. The proposed 20% pay boost was still just a proposal. In an election year, no one liked even to talk about universal military training. Plans for merger of the armed forces were stalemated. Congress was still thinking it all over...
Stabilizer Bowles partially placated the auto industry with a boost in car ceilings, to take care of rising wage and material costs. From now on, new car buyers must agree to add the increase, when OPA decides on the amount, to the price of their car. Reflecting auto wage increases, the first boost may be 5%. Price of a Ford Tudor Sedan, for example, would be increased by $45. Eventually, as the new wage policy boosts costs all along the line, automen expect the increases to run as high...
...proposed that U.S. cotton exchanges boost margins on cotton futures $10 a bale for every cent a pound rise above 25?. (At the present price of 26? a pound, on the New York Exchange, this would increase margins 1½times.) Few knew whether this would hold down prices. But it raised the tempers of cotton patriots so high that they loudly threatened to liquidate OPA if it continued to tamper with the sacred right of cotton to rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work...
...Companies, Hendy will specialize in cranes, power shovels, dump-truck bodies, etc., will have a sizable market in the Six Companies alone. It also plans to produce any other machinery the new industrial West needs. Already Hendy has a backlog of $10,000,000. President McCone expects to boost sales to $3,000,000 a month...
Nevertheless, energetic Mr. Scherman is not satisfied. This month he will launch a new advertising campaign, which he hopes will boost B.O.M.C. members over 1,000,000, make it the biggest book club...