Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race to reconvert, short, balding Nash Russ, president of Taylorcraft Aviation Corp., had delivered his first civilian plane just two weeks after V-J day. Taylorcraft's Alliance, Ohio plant is now turning out 15 a day of its single model, the Twosome ($2,295), hopes to boost production to 50 a day by year's end. By then, Mr. Russ also hopes to be in production of a new model, a four-place, 127-m.p.h. plane. Price...
...planes, more than five times as many as in their best (1939) prewar year. Nor were they worried about surplus Army planes. Most of the flyable small planes have already been snapped up, with no lessening of demand. At week's end, the industry got one more boost. The Lea bill, which would provide federal funds to help build more than 3,000 airports (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was passed by the House...
Packard's problems are just as serious. Packard's basic wage scale, said Christopher, has increased 12% since 1942; overall production costs are up 17%. So, said he, if OPA holds firm on prices, and labor insists on a 30% wage boost, the auto industry faces shutdown or bankruptcy...
...This boost came only after a long wrangle between the parts manufacturers and OPA. Price increases had first been granted about six weeks ago, but radiomen found them too low, decided to stop shipping parts until they got more. By almost doubling the original increase, OPA made the manufacturer "reasonably happy...
...number of radios which will be available by Christmas range all the way from 600,000 to 3,000,000 sets. Best guess: probably below a million. The industry grumbled that this will be far less than the demand, blamed OPA for holding out too long on its ceiling boost. OPA cracked back: the industry had been so slow sending in figures on which OPA could base prices that OPA had to go out and get some of them itself...