Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wholly owned by the Crown. At least two-thirds of this was suitable "for good use in peacetime," and "satisfactory progress" was being made in conversion. At the same time private industry, which spent half a billion dollars in war plant expansion, had now earmarked $200 million more to boost output...
...that price increases should be given now, on the basis of present earnings. Cutbacks in war contracts, said he, had made present operations in the industry abnormal. They would not be back to "normal" until early in 1946. At that time, said Mr. Bowles, the matter of a price boost would be taken up again...
...more than joo small, nonintegrated steel makers, he held out a closer hope. Even the OPA is willing to admit that many of the small companies, without the advantage of ore-to-ingot production, are losing money. Mr. Bowles promised them a price boost...
...once receiving sets were on the market. But the best part of the FCC ruling was an order to commercial television stations to get busy, increase their broadcasting time to a minimum of 28 hours a week (twice as much as the present best average in New York). This boost in time will encourage manufacturers to rush new sets. Thus far, a price up to $500 has been too steep for such an idle gadget...
George Bernard Shaw, who seldom goes beyond comparing himself with Shakespeare, received a bigger boost from an unidentified woman visitor to the House of Commons. In the central lobby she suddenly began shouting, "Mr. Bernard Shaw is God's right-hand man." She was promptly thrown...