Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bungled Campaign. At the start of the strike, the big steel companies, led by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, laid down a demand of their own: in return for even a modest boost in wages and fringe benefits, the union would have to agree to contract changes to "cut the cost of steelmaking." With high labor costs squeezing U.S. steel out of foreign markets (TIME, July 20), the steel companies had a solid argument for holding costs down. Revelations of corruption in the labor movement had weakened organized labor's influence. And the U.S. public was fed up with...
Harvard pass defense may get the boost it needs today with the return of Jim Nelson, defensive hero of the Bucknell game, and Albie Cullen, a good runner but an even better defenseman...
...real housecleaning, the A.C.E. urged last week, every state should drastically boost standards for licensing and degree granting. Already the Council of State Governments has shown "willingness to proceed immediately toward uniform state legislation." Congress might also plug interstate and international loopholes with new laws, make sure that U.S. Foreign Service officers get full dossiers on academic racketeers. "Through such solidly founded cooperation," the A.C.E. concluded, "there is a real chance that American degree mills can be eliminated...
...brought in more than a dozen top executives, plucking them away from such firms as Revlon, Macy's and Marshall Field with generous stock-option plans, and he gave employee morale a quick boost by putting in a new pension plan. He reorganized Ward's management structure, bolstered confidence by delegating authority, scrapped Sewell Avery's outlandish rules. He began to change Ward's cash hoard into merchandising strength in 1955, since then has redecorated nearly 376 of the company's 566 stores, air-conditioned 73 of them, opened more than 296 new catalogue stores...
...Europe it has been customary for the art critics of each country to boost native artists. U.S. critics have long declined to do the same, but now they are changing. Sign of the trend: George Braziller Inc. last week published six monographs on U.S. artists, to sell at $3.95 in hard cover and $1.50 in Pocket Book. The low prices were achieved by gambling on large sales and by ordering big first printings-10,000 hard cover, 50,000 paperbacks. The editions are identical inside, carry more than 80 plates each, with 16 in color (drawn partly from the files...