Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sure enough, waiting at Leningrad airport was a friendly, waving crowd-including one Red Chinese who mystified all present by grabbing Nixon's hand and blurting out an apparently cheery but unintelligible greeting. Politician Nixon proceeded to give Politician Kozlov a boost with the home folks. "Mr. Kozlov," Nixon informed the crowd, "told me several times that one cannot come to the Soviet Union without visiting Leningrad." "Da!" interjected Kozlov loudly as his fellow citizens chuckled. "These are your constituents," grinned Nixon...
Steel management received Labor Secretary Mitchell coolly; it believes that he has partially reversed President Eisenhower's original hands-off stand, and it resents Mitchell's feeling that the industry's soaring profits (see above) should be able to accommodate a few cents' hourly boost for the steelworkers...
...President David J. McDonald last week presented union demands to the aluminum industry, whose contracts lapse July 31. Dave McDonald wants the same windfall for his 32,000 aluminum members as for his 500,000 steel-industry members: a three-year contract with a 15? hourly wage-and-benefit boost every year, plus cost-of-living hikes. The U.S. aluminum industry is softer than steel; if management accedes to a neat compromise package-perhaps iof an hour-it might speed a settlement in steel. If not, the aluminum workers may soon join the Steelworkers on the picket line...
planned to meet rising European and U.S. small-car competition. Company will add $125 million in plant and equipment to boost daily output from 2,400 to 3,000 cars...
...Boeing 707 flights between Chicago and Los Angeles. Continental's competitors at first scoffed that the commuterlike service would produce only confusion, but last week they banked steeply onto Continental's course. The innovation proved so successful in eliminating nagging airport waits (it also helped boost Continental's revenue passenger miles 61% last month) that American Airlines now plans to try the system on selected runs, and Trans World Airlines is studying...