Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth quarter pushed 1958 earnings to $3.08 per share and a new record, 95% better than last year. Westinghouse. whose sales declined 5.6% largely because of the slump in appliances, had a better-than-good year: by working hard on a cost-control program, it managed to boost earnings to $4.25 per share v. $4.18 last year...
...freight, up 6.4% from 1937. American gained 15% (to 95 million ton-miles); United gained 14% and Delta 40%, in the first eleven months alone. The Flying Tiger line, operating largely as a cargo carrier, jumped 25%, to 65.6 million ton-miles and a $12 million gross. The big boost comes from a new approach to cargo by both the lines and businessmen. Instead of relying on emergency shipments of badly needed goods and the small oddball traffic in perishable orchids, baby whales and race horses, the airmen aimed a new pitch at solid production-line items...
...theater were singing the blues about life on the road. Whether in Bridgeport or Ashtabula, St. Joe or Altoona, so few citizens west of the Main Stem are paying to see touring shows that a conference of theater operators met in Manhattan to search for a way to boost show business in the sticks, or, as Variety might say, to look for trix to fix stix...
...WAGE BOOST will go to some 500,000 of oil industry's workers and salaried employees. Hike lifts average hourly pay of refinery workers from...
Monro cited "inflation" as the cause of the boost. Additional costs of services and materials, plus the deconversion of some rooms into offices for non-resident tutors, made the increase necessary...