Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though Macmillan's Tories had already lost one seat to Labor last fortnight and seen Labor boost its local majority by 50% to retain a seat at Wednesbury last week, the "reeling blow" that Lady Megan dealt was felt less by the Tories than by the once powerful party of her father and of the young Winston Churchill. With Laborite Lloyd George's election, the Liberal Party's representation in the House of Commons was reduced to a pitiful five members...
Then why did oilmen wait for the Suez crisis to boost prices? Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith guessed it was for the same reason that Texas held down allowables. Appearing in behalf of her consumer constituents before the Senate's O'Mahoney subcommittee, she testified: "It is entirely possible that prices were not raised by domestic producers prior to the Suez crisis for the very obvious factor of competition from foreign imports. Perhaps domestic producers didn't dare increase prices for fear they would lose such markets as New England. Obviously these attempts...
MORTGAGE HELP is coming from Congress. While Senate is considering boost, House voted a $500 million increase in amount Federal National Mortgage Assn. can borrow from Treasury to buy U.S.-insured mortgages from private lenders. Bill will tide over Fannie Mae until June 30, by which time Eisenhower Administration hopes to hike agency's borrowing power by $1 billion...
...will probably be passed by Congress this year. Unions want to extend law to 10 million more Americans (now covered: 24 miliion) to cover most workers for big companies engaged in interstate trade, plus some in retail trade and service, laundry and dry cleaning, communications, taxi business. Next goal: boost minimum wage to $1.25 from $1 an hour...
...Juice by Sea. Sale of fresh Florida orange juice in Northern states will get a boost from Fruit Industries Inc., which has solved the high cost of refrigerated land transport with S.S. Tropicana, a vacuum-sealed stainless-steel tanker. The ship can carry 1,500,000 gal. (the juice of 70 million oranges) on a 56-hour run from Cocoa, Fla. to Long Island, where the juice is put in cartons for sale in twelve states and Canada. Company spends only $15,000 per tanker trip v. $265,000 if the juice came by land...