Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire 130,000 words of the Army & Navy's Pearl Harbor reports. It was quite a job. The Times flew the texts up from Washington, piled up 80 hours of printers' overtime in setting it, tossed out four pages of advertising, dipped into its paper rations to boost its average midweek 155 columns of news to 283 columns, and hit the streets with the full text seven and a half hours after getting...
...argued that only by keeping the price ceiling would badly needed cheap housing be built, a wild inflation in building be averted. Without a ceiling, a $6,000 house could easily sell for $12,000 in the present shortage. Furthermore, frantic bidding for prices of scarce materials would soon boost their prices out of sight, and further jack up building costs all down the line...
...earlier, a Senate labor subcommittee had called on the War Labor Board to regard all wages below 65? (instead of 55?, as at present) as substandard. And two days later, 70 House members had signed a petition asking President Truman to revise the battered Little Steel formula, permit a boost of at least 20% in the basic pay rate "to avoid sowing the seeds of a disastrous depression...
Wallace, pitching brilliant ball, retired the first 17 men in order without a hit. His fast ball and curve so completely fooled the opposing batters that ten of them went down swinging. Wallace gave another boost to his cause, and to his record, by blasting out a terrific home run in the third inning with nobody...
...usual, brokers had many and conflicting explanations for the breaks: the Federal Reserve Board might boost margin requirements to 100%; the war with Japan might end, etc., etc. But the plain fact seemed to be that the market had long been riding for a fall-and at last it fell...