Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials of the U.S. Steel Corp. waited one day last week for a final figure to guide them in fixing the twelfth consecutive steel price rise since World War II. As soon as word came of another jump in the cost-of-living index, which meant an automatic wage boost for steelworkers, statisticians swiftly added the change to a mosaic of other figures on increased costs, including the industry-wide wage hike called for in the contract signed last year. Soon after, U.S. Steel President Clifford F. Hood announced a steel price boost averaging $6 a ton. Before the week...
...newspaper (total circ. 15 million) to take his TV Key. Among other subscribers: the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Bulletin, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Detroit Times, New York Journal-American. A survey of viewers in Kansas City, where TV Key runs in the Star, estimated recently that a Scheuer boost could fatten a show's Trendex rating by as much as nine points...
...soon bring in the first major imports of Mexican gas from across the border. By such hustle, Texas Eastern (gross 1956 sales: $175.2 million) upped earnings per share last year to $2.05, believes that its 1,700-mile products line, added to gas lines totaling 5,800 miles, will boost share earnings...
...fish the country's lakes, streams and seacoasts; last year they spent nearly $800 million for equipment, including 11 million rods and 8 million reels, plus more than $1 billion in other costs. One of every four men is an angler, one of every eleven women. The big boost that has made sport fishing big time, say the Nags Head "professors," is a threefold improvement in tackle...
...President's remarks gave an enormous boost to some of his advisers who believe that the U.S. should join in Red China trade. Leader of the pro-trade forces is Chicago Industrialist Clarence Randall, chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy. Among his most potent arguments, as Ike summarized it at his press conference: "Trade in itself is the greatest weapon in the hands of a diplomat." Ike's chief economic adviser, Gabriel Hauge, sympathizes with the Randall view. There are also followers of this line of reasoning within the State Department itself; e.g., Under Secretary...