Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commodity Credit Corp. offered to raise the price to $3.67½, for the 1946 crop. This was satisfactory to Cuba, but Congress so far had not given the CCC authority to pay a subsidy to absorb the increase. The retail price boost was the only solution...
...last week's shooting in the León square was slight, gold-toothed José Valades, national organizing secretary of the Sinarquistas. He thought it would boost Sinarquista membership. In national political terms, the massacre would cost P.R.M.'s probable candidate, Miguel Alemán, some votes in the July presidential elections, gain some for ex-foreign minister Ezequiel Padilla, who is supported by Catholic rightists...
...Radical case: small business wanted normalcy, and Tamborini meant peace; big business was fed up with share-the-wealth decrees; some labor elements suspected Juan Perón's kept unions, well remembering how many workers the Strong Man had jailed. As for the election-timed 30% pay boost for labor (judged by some to have gained Peron a cool million votes), a taxi driver answered that one: "We earn more," he squawked, "but we spend more. It doesn't make sense...
Several uneasy pharmaceutical groups are working energetically on: a complete shake-up of pharmacy colleges; a revised, realistic curriculum and fresh faculty blood; a publicity program to boost respect for pharmacy and attract young druggists...
...Juan Domingo Perón had completed his plans for a campaign tour of Argentine provinces. He had every reason to expect a welcome as warm as Santa Claus's, one translatable into votes on presidential election day, next Feb. 24. The reason: a governmental decree last week boosting pay an average 30% for some 3,000,000 workers (1,000,000 more than the normal total of Argentine voters). The boost had been Perón's idea, left with the Government when he was ousted in October...