Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boost [Jan. 21] he may well...
...cross winds and keeps track of the airplane's heading during all parts of the flight. This informa tion, combined automatically by a computer, tells the pilot continuously where he is, and as a kind of extra feature, the clever "66" helps him find the fastest wind to boost him to his destination...
...locomotives from 61,300 to 34,000, the number of freight cars from 2,600,000 to 2,000,000, the number of employees from 1,600,000 to 1,000,000. But by getting vastly more work out of man and machine power, railroaders have been able to boost the total amount of freight by 45% to 650 billion ton-miles in 1956. And that is only the beginning: in the next ten years, the industry expects to spend $20 billion more for modernization to cut costs and boost volume even higher...
...trouble is that ICC is slow and hesitant to let railroads boost rates enough to cover inflated costs. Though U.S. roads have won 13 freight-rate increases since 1946, the hikes have only increased revenues per ton-mile some 45%, while wages jumped 130%, and material costs rose 80%. Another complaint is that ICC will not let the roads cut rates on products they can carry cheaper than competing trucks, thus tends to allocate markets and stifle free competition...
DIAMOND SHORTAGE is bringing price boost by South Africa's monopolistic De Beers syndicate. Retail diamond jewelry prices will rise about 10% this year, following 5% hike in 1956, and industrial diamonds will go even higher. Demand is outstripping supply largely because U.S., which buys two-thirds of world's diamonds, last year imported peak $159 million worth of gem diamonds...