Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market was another question. Last week Lukens Steel Co. produced an idea: it plans to finance its $40 million expansion program through 20-year loans from General Electric Co. and other big customers. Most other steelmen will probably depend on earnings to finance the new plants, are expected to boost prices to get the extra cash they need. At week's end U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Inland Steel hiked prices 1% to 4% on specialty items for the second price rise in six months...
...independents won an all-out victory before the Texas Railroad Commission, which sets quotas for the Texas fields (source of 45% of all U.S. oil). Despite the rising European demand, the Commission refused the pleas of big oil companies, which buy much of their oil from independents, to boost production. January output will be held to 16 producing days, an average of 3.4 million bbls. daily for the month...
...doorbell campaign. Disgruntled state employees flocked to ex-Employee Del Sesto's support. Attractive Lola Del Sesto and their three sons gave him an emotional appeal that Bachelor Denny Roberts did not have. Most important of all, much of the Italian-American vote shook off Democratic habit to boost a man with a name like Del Sesto...
...highly paid-workers. In the long run, businessmen are sure they can solve the problems. They know that productivity rises unevenly, that money spent to increase efficiency takes time to show up in the statistics. Thus, they expect the huge spending in 1956 to give productivity a big boost in future years...
...country club near Miami Beach, under the approving eye of a local pro, Manhattan Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, 54, wearing Bermuda shorts in balmy 80° weather, practiced some shots with his irons, thus gave golf another boost toward seeming the modern politician's favorite game. A middling golfer keeping fit, Republican Dewey usually tours 18 holes in the high...