Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present levies. In New York, personal income taxes were in creased 11% by Democratic Governor Averell Harriman's administration. In Iowa, under Republican Governor Leo Hoegh, the legislature adopted a whole range of tax increases (in sales, use, in come and gasoline levies), adding up to an 8% boost. Nevada became the 32nd state to levy a general sales and use tax (2%); Washington pushed its state sales tax up to the highest in the U.S. (3.3%) ; Idaho decided to begin deducting state income tax from paychecks. Gasoline taxes, levied by all 48 states, are going up from...
Coming at a time when U.S. copper prices are at a near record for peacetime, 36? a lb., the law is deftly designed to 1) boost production, 2) bring Chile millions of dollars in new capital and increased revenues, 3) raise company profits, and 4) provide the world with more of Chile's abundant copper. "A victory for good sense," commented a Santiago newspaper...
...last five years, 6? an hour has been added to each worker's pay in cost-of-living raises. The union wants this added to regular base pay so that it will not be lost if the cost of living declines. It also wants the hourly wage boost based on improved productivity, plus increased pension payments and other benefits. The combined cost of all this, said the union, would be much less than it had won in some previous bargaining sessions, such as 1946. when it won 18½? plus some "fringe'' benefits. But Detroit automen estimated...
...boom in European travel this year will be the greatest ever. Last week transatlantic airlines and shiplines predicted that they will boost last year's record haul by 10%, carry abroad more than 600,000 Americans who will spend upwards of half a billion dollars...
...Unjustified." After the unions refused to budge from their position, a government-appointed three-man court of inquiry was called in. It found the demands "unjustified . . . unrealistic," since they would boost the unions' scale well above that of the rest of the country. But the negotiators refused to bargain. Labor Minister Sir Walter Monckton proposed that the strikers go back to work on all papers, pending a settlement, but his appeal fell on deaf ears...