Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's attempt to turn farming, needle-sensitive to prices and demand, into a planned economy. Under present ceilings, the farmer can make more money by feeding grain to hogs and cattle than by selling it. The Government-fixed premium price for fat hogs, introduced in 1944 to boost the yield of fats and oils for Europe, encourages the farmer to feed hogs to the bursting point...
...Father Rector treated the wounded as well as he could. He had to confine himself in general to cleansing the wounds of purulent material. Even those with the smaller burns were very weak, and all suffered from diarrhea. Our work was, in the eyes of the people, a greater boost for Christianity than all our work during the preceding long years...
...F.P.A. had hiked his pay to $21,852 a year, for a syndicated column in the New York Herald Tribune. When he tried to boost it higher and was offered a pay cut instead, F.P.A. submerged, surfaced his "Conning Tower" again on the New York Post. The Post fired him in 1941 because the Adams style of poetry a la Horace and Herrick was too fancy for the subway trade...
...first it had seemed ready to mesh as smoothly in peace. Reconversion had been swift. Less than two months after V-E day, the first Fords rolled off the long assembly lines-right smack into the U.A.W.'s demands for a 30% pay boost. Young Henry has solved that by i) patient bargaining and 2) showing the U.A.W. the precarious status of the company. He hoped he had also solved the problem of increasing productivity. If he had, then the cost of making cars in his superb production machine should go down...
...were in the Army or Navy four months ago, you weren't the only one who doubted that you'd be registering today. It was reported unofficially that the War Department was predicting to the nation's institutions of learning that there was no cause to fear a sudden boost in enrollment until next September...