Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Workers out on a major strike. But last week, old John L. showed that his roar can still jolt the coal industry. The mere threat of a U.M.W. strike was enough to make unionized soft-coal operators accept costly new contract terms, topped by a $2-a-day wage boost, which will bring the union miner's standard pay to $24.25 a day. John L. has generally accepted labor-saving machinery and consequent boosts in productivity, but these have not been enough, soft-coal companies implied in announcing that prices would go up after Jan. 1. Economists guessed that...
...realists, some of whom, now that their countries are becoming independent, can no longer live simply by indicting imperialism. They were getting an opportunity for the first time to meet other black nationalists from all over the continent, to size them up, to swap ideas, to get a psychological boost from the feeling that others were with them. For all the fiery phrases about "solidarity and fraternity" and for all the placards reading, "Forward to Independence Now!" this was no gathering of obedient line followers. They accepted as conference chairman Kenya's flashy young (28) Nationalist Tom Mboya...
...fancy restaurants, queued in block-long lines for movies. West Berlin's new Hilton Hotel opened with a shimmer of celebrities flown in from Manhattan. Siemens announced a new $8.6 million program for expanding its West Berlin electrical-equipment operation, promising 2,000 new jobs. Bonn decided to boost its $260 million annual subsidy to the West Berlin government by more than a third...
...Holding Out." The issues-and causes-were as complex as the fuel-flow system of a new 707 jet. Eastern's mechanics, like those at T.W.A., originally wanted a whacking 49? an hour across-the-board boost (present wage: $2.51). Both lines offered 41? an hour over three years, or what the union won after a 37-day strike against Capital Airlines last month. Since then. National Airlines (see below) has signed for 44? an hour, to match Capital's hourly wage...
...fight was over the I.A.M.'s demand for a new contract containing a fat pay boost. T.W.A. mechanics originally demanded a 49?-per-hour pay hike on a one-year contract, plus changes in T.W.A.'s seniority and supervisory rules. A month ago T.W.A. countered with an offer of 40? per hour over a three-year period, later boosted it to 41? per hour, the level at which the I.A.M. recently settled with Northwest Airlines. But it was not enough for the mechanics. Snapped T.W.A. President Charles Thomas: "The company withdraws the offers it has made...