Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trust fund, Soapy will still have to push for tax increases to keep the state solvent. Republicans in the legislature have proposed to blot up the red ink by upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams adamantly opposes any sales tax boost, urges instead a progressive state income tax on middle and upper bracket incomes and a new 5% levy on corporation profits-which would worsen Michigan's already severe problem of attracting, and keeping, diversified industry...
From one of its steadiest suppliers, a British frozen-food company received a chilly ultimatum: either boost its price for peas (currently $126 a ton) or move all that pea-picking machinery off the Norfolk property. The hard-bargaining farm owner: Queen Elizabeth...
...idea, called revolving credit or check credit, was pioneered by Boston's First National Bank in 1955. Last week its Vice President Harold B. Hassinger told the Chicago meeting that profits from the plan not only run 50% higher than on personal loans, but that it has helped boost personal loan business 40% by popularizing credit. Said Hassinger: "Don't be surprised if this plan does ultimately displace most everything but the open charge account with the grocer and other retail outlets...
...Belgians largely ignored pleas to modernize their mines, close marginal producers. Germany's Ludwig Erhard resisted any imposition of production quotas. He preferred to slap domestic tariffs on imports from outside the area (including $4.76 a ton on U.S. coal) and higher taxes on other fuels to boost coal sales. Italy and Luxembourg want to continue buying cheaper U.S. coal, even if this is considered disloyal to surplus-ridden Community producers. The French hinted that they might not obey orders to restrict production, which, though helping the Belgians, would be merely "exporting unemployment into France...
...have increased, on the average, six times every year. For the fiscal year ended last Feb. 28, sales hit $4,750,000, with earnings of 50? per share, v. 8? in 1957. Stock issued at $1 per share in 1956 was selling around $25 per share last week. To boost earnings this year, Bob Rod is counting on new ideas. Among them: an ultrasonic whistle that will increase or decrease the rate at which solid fuel in missiles burns, control its thrust. (Sound waves shot through a material accelerate many chemical reactions, including combustion...