Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FLORIDA FROST, third this year for a major U.S. source of winter fresh vegetables, will sharply cut supply, bring another big price boost until early summer harvest...
...country are in serious economic trouble," cried Michigan's Pat McNamara. With Massachusetts' John Kennedy, McNamara co-sponsored a bill to fatten state unemployment benefits and make them run for 39 weeks instead of the now-usual 26. Tennessee's Albert Gore introduced a bill to boost federal aid to state and local governments for public-works projects. In keeping with a grand design sketched out by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson-who was working on the economy when not busy with space-Senate Democrats were drafting six other recession-inspired bills, calling for increased federal spending...
...FARE INCREASE of 6.6% (TIME, Feb. 3) starts this week. Though domestic lines still want more (15% to 20% boost), all carriers have filed for new rates, say that they will apply on all tickets after...
...million annual business with its high-priced ($89,500) twin-engined Aero Commander. When the Air Force bought 15, including one for President Eisenhower, so many companies jumped in with orders that Aero expects to sell about 120 planes this year, has built a $6,250,000 plant to boost production. Prospects are so good that even big military planemakers are moving into the market...
...fixed high wages, surplus-producing subsidies, featherbedding, Keynesian deficit financing, etc. Through such "creeping socialism," labor's share of the wealth produced has increased from an estimated 50% in 1870-80 to 70% in 1956. Yet this redistribution, argue K. & A., while it may have been necessary to boost mass purchasing power, is unjust...