Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catlike work on a hot tin roof, members of Long Island's Sheet Metal Workers Union (A.F.L.-C.I.O.) Local 55 are paid $4.35 an hour. Last month they had good news from the 31 contractors who employ them: a new contract with an hourly boost of about 30?. But just before they signed,Joseph Frederick, local president for 25 years, had an unusual idea. Among them, his 1,300 men have 2,436 children; 94 are of college age. but only 21 are in college. Why not forgo the wage hike, start a college fund for members' children...
...crowded classrooms and the children's poverty. But Shepard was tired of excuses. Drive, desire and ambition, he snapped, are as much a part of school success as native ability. He called parents together in meeting after meeting prescribed homework and more homework, sparked them to want to boost their children's grades. If parents were too uneducated to help with studies, he said frankly, they could at least buy dictionaries and give children a place to work. "Integration didn't put us in too good a light," he told the parents over and over. "School...
...Hill, Mount Hermon, St. Paul's. Reason: the schools are "among those setting teaching standards." By giving them endowments of $300,000 apiece, the Donner Foundation has a sound scheme: releasing money to raise all teachers' salaries within the lucky six schools, and creating a lever to boost pay across the country...
...DEBT LIMIT boost of $7 billion will soon be requested by Treasury Department to make up for current budget deficit and lag in corporate tax receipts next fall. It will ask that $288 billion temporary debt ceiling be raised to $295 billion, but hopes budget will balance...
...flights for both American Airlines and Pan American Airways is the autopilot system, which temperamentally gets out of kilter with the least flaw in a soldered wire, a spring or a clip. The airlines have had to delay flights because of trouble with the water-injection system used to boost takeoffs, bugs in the air-conditioning and pressurization system, even burnt-out lights over the passenger seats. On one occasion an American jet sat on the ground for several hours waiting for a replacement for a burnt-out taillight. Other gremlins: leaking brake fluid, inaccurate fuel-tank gauges, cracked cockpit...