Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, already has "the most powerful striking force on earth." But then, illustrating an astonishing Air Force two-headedness, Quarles admitted that Air Force Chief of Staff Nate Twining thought he needed an extra $7 billion over and above the budgeted $16.5 billion for the coming fiscal year to boost the number of bomber wings from eleven to seventeen...
...Boost teacher salaries, build more roads, increase old-age benefits, extend already liberal state services...
...giving 1,500 West Coast Teamsters Union members mobile pensions, will pay 10? per hour per worker into fund which union and management will administer jointly. With Libby victory, Teamsters have won mobile pensions for a total of more than 200,000 workers in eleven Western states, hope to boost total...
...outlook is the steel industry. In Manhattan, the Steelworkers angrily rejected industry proposals for a five-year contract, dismissed as "picayune" the companies' offer of an annual 6tf hourly raise and other benefits (including premium pay for Sunday work, starting in 1959), which the companies said would boost labor costs 65? an hour in five years. Snorted Steelworkers' President David McDonald: "The titans of industry have labored and brought forth a louse." But most steelmen remained hopeful that a contract would be signed by the July 1 deadline...
FIRST ATOMIC-POWER reactor under President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan has been ordered from Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co. by the Dominican Republic. The deal, contingent on a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and General Trujillo, will boost power-hungry Ciudad Trujillo's electrical output...