Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be able to buy some new radio sets for Christmas. So manufacturers promised last week, after OPA boosted ceilings on radio parts. But no consumer would have to pay more than the 1942 prices. So OPAdministrator Chester Bowles promised. The increases, said he, will be absorbed by distributors and dealers. To encourage production of cheap sets, the biggest boost (15%) goes on radios wholesaling for less than $11; the lowest (10½%) to sets wholesaling from...
...expected that labor, now hot after 30% increases to bring postwar wages up to wartime totals, would be content for long with 15%. But there was no law against hoping; Administration analysts hoped that by spring U.S. production-and profits-would be big enough to give a Boost to wages without a lift of prices. If done, it would be the neatest economic trick of the millennium...
There was no shortage of reasons. The most obvious was that the war had cut production. The loss of the Philippines had cut out 900,000 tons a year. Cuba, trying to boost production, had cut its sugar cane too close to the ground in 1944. Not only does it take 18 months for the growth to come back to normal, but Cuba this year suffered its worst drought in 86 years, resulting in a sugar loss of 900,000 tons. Hawaiian and Puerto Rican production was way down...
...Public Be Damned. With a rueful bow to the powerful cotton-bloc lobby, the Department of Agriculture last week lifted the parity price for raw cotton to a new high of 21.58? a Ib.-the dizziest peak since 1920. The Department was forced to boost the price under the Bankhead Amendment, which requires adjustment of the parity price. Uultimately (and at pyramided price increases) this sop to cotton growers' inefficiency will be passed on to the consumer...
...Attend to sundry pressing business mat ters. Among them: the sale to M-G-M of the movie rights to Cass Timberlane, which, together with The Book-of-the-Month Club donative and the magazine serial rights, would certainly boost the total take for his new novel well up toward the half-million-dollar figure. It would ease Novelist Lewis into that golden horseshoe where Kathleen Winsor (For ever Amber) currently queened it over U.S. letters...