Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wedding, spouting a geyser of oil that drenches the wedding party and turns the bride's dress black. What follows is Peter's epic fight with the head of a railroad line (Alan Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force the farmers to sell out their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line to the refinery. The railroad's strong-arm gang, headed by Peter's loud-mouthed neighbor, Red Scanlon (Charles Bickford), tries to break the line, buy out the land it crosses...
...when he stepped out before the funeral with his "message to Alben," not only taking up politics immediately but accusing others of not observing a decent mourning period, a good deal of Congressional blood boiled. It was not cooled by what Senators took to be an oblique effort to boost Senator Barkley as Senator Robinson's successor (see col. 2). Instead of healing, the Democratic split widened sorely. The death of Robinson had become not only a grief, but a turning point in politics. Only for Robinson did it mean an end of strife...
...Maritime Federation of the Pacific with the longshoremen and seamen as the key unions. The motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all." For the Federation's first president he hit on Harry Lundeberg, who was even more militant than he. This was such a boost for Lundeberg that he was soon given leadership of the Sailors' Union. Meantime the two Harrys settled down to battle for control of the Federation's 40,000 members...
...Senate. Backing him were the Messrs. Bankhead and Pope of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Representative Marvin Jones, head of the like committee of the House. At first Mr. Wallace was reluctant to agree to what was urged upon him. He was pressed with the point that his bill would boost the Government's expenses about $100,000,000 next year, that it is late in the season and Congress is left with a great deal to do. On condition that Congressional committees would continue study of his plan this summer, have everything ready for Congressional action next January...
...mines, a tax on sugar used by national industries. A "forcible bill of exchange" for all credit sales, costing up to $200 on a transaction involving $50,000, would yield another $1,000,000, and a 5% tax on capital leaving the island $1,100,000 more. Biggest boost was suggested in the tax on resident foreigners, now $1.55 a head, which would be raised to $5 for laborers and $10 for businessmen, produce another $2,160,000. Most of Cuba's foreigners are Haitians and British West Indians, the most poverty-stricken of whom Boss Batista has been...