Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both Houses voted a 10% pay boost, retroactive to January, for more than 1,000,000 federal civil servants. Added annual cost: $542 million. <1 By a 12-1 margin, the Senate Labor Committee approved Jack Kennedy's labor-reform bill requiring unions to hold secret ballot elections at least once every five years, report to the Government on where the money comes from and goes. Kennedy managed to draft a bill that was both 1) hard-knuckled enough to win the indispensable endorsement of Arkansas' labor-investigating John Mc-Clellan, and 2) so kid-gloved that...
...selling for less than Brazil's rigidly fixed prices, the most optimistic export prediction is 13 million bags, worth $800 million. The Brazilian government has already paid for 15.4 million bags of surplus coffee it now holds, and the new 22 million-bag crop now pouring in could boost the surplus another 9,000,000. Next year's estimated crop: 24 million bags...
Huxley ends with the familiar recommendations to cut the birth rate, boost the food supply and decentralize urban life. But his recommendations seem perfunctory. Watching his stereotype of the satisfied American teen-ager pleasurably floating in a television world, Huxley sees little real hope for the future. And when the brave new world comes, he concludes, it will likely stay forever: "Men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown...
...sooner was the indictment out than the oil companies stepped up, one by one, to deny the charges. To many companies, in fact, the indictment came as a double blow. They pointed out that when everyone was crying for oil during Suez, the industry was actually forced to boost the prices it paid well operators before they would increase production. Then, when production was roaring along, the bottom dropped out of the market leaving the industry holding a heavy surplus of oil that it has been trying to get rid of ever since...
...next five years, Turner expects another 100% increase in his high-flying bottoms, with a 125% boost on the Pacific route to the U.S. and Canada. Says he: "Australia is virtually isolated. Trade is vital; development is vital. Qantas has a major role to play in both...