Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, if necessary, the Civilian Production Administration would step in and allocate steel to K-F. In any case, K-F and Graham-Paige will not get enough to make more than 1,500 cars a day, a figure they hope (overoptimistically, say automakers) to reach next October. To boost production above this, they will have to make cars with aluminum bodies. This may prove to be one of the toughest jobs Kaiser has ever tackled...
Last week they put the finishing touches to a new plan they both heartily approved: a $5,000,000 construction and expansion program designed to boost Rich's annual sales volume...
Bill Jackson started it off by tossing the shot a healthy 52 feet, 9 3/4 inches; John Holbrook followed by taking the broad jump, and Harwood's 12-foot boost took first in the pole-vault. A 6-foot, 2-inch high jump by Jim Harrington concluded the field events...
...bill cut in half; it also paid off $114,000,000 on war plants. Result: net profits were down only to $57,000,000 v. $61,000,000 in 1944. Bethlehem Steel did even better. C.I.O.-hating Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel came up smiling with a boost in profits...
...Thomas was moved at week's end when G.M. electrical workers abruptly ended their strike, affecting 25,000 employes at G.M. plants in Ohio and New York, a handful in Detroit. The C.I.O. electrical workers had secretly settled for an 18½?-an-hour wage boost. (The auto workers are demanding 19½?.) The settlement left Thomas "terribly shocked." Said he: "It put us in an awful spot, since G.M. now will come to us insisting that we settle on the same terms...