Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negotiations continued amiably. Detroit dopesters believed that a new Ford contract, with a compromise wage boost...
...present air rates. At the lowest air freight rate to date for scheduled air routes, 26? per ton mile, Myers found only a "meager volume" of perishables could be shipped. But, he added hopefully, rates could be reduced sufficiently by specially designed freight planes, including insulation, to boost volume. Would this be done? Cocky Myers bluntly warned West Coasters that they had better see that it is done. Said he: "We must revolutionize our methods [or] it will be an invitation to the quick freezers and dehydrators to take over all or part of our perishable business...
Empty Glass. The East and West Coasts suffered from a new shortage -milk. Returning G.I.s, who got little milk abroad, had helped boost consumption to a new high, just when production was at its seasonal low. The Department of Agriculture promised that the new year will bring a fuller pail...
...angry words, as Bowles well knows, bring few beeves to market. So he also acted. He broadened OPA's plan of "incentive" price increases to coax the quick production of more consumers' goods, chiefly low-priced articles. Shoe manufacturers were granted a wholesale price boost of 42%, cheap furniture makers 7-13%, radio makers 10-15%, makers of lawn mowers 17%. On some cotton goods such as bedspreads and table linen, price boosts ran from as much as 20% to 40%. Before long, OPA expects to give sizable price increases also to makers of electrical appliances and household...
...flying Fleet Admiral Nimitz, was DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, son of an Army officer, but a naval aviator since 1916 with a well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...