Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's part in the liquor war between the States has been different. One of 17 States which has a monopoly on the sale of liquor, the Commonwealth's Legislature a year ago levied a 4% relief tax on distillers without allowing them to pass the boost on to consumers at 550 State stores. Valuing the big Pennsylvania market, distillers fell in line. All was well until last November when representatives of the other monopoly States met in Chicago, demanded that either Pennsylvania raise prices 4% or that distillers cut prices to other monopoly States 4%. Pennsylvania refused...
Since it was Strong Man Flores da Cunha, a doughty soldier who can tie a steer singlehanded, who helped boost his friend into the Presidential Palace in 1930, Strong Man Vargas knew he had better act quickly. Back to Porto Alegre flashed a Presidential order relieving Governor Flores da Cunha of his responsibilities as executor of the "state of war" in Rio Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores...
Having maneuvered Mr. Lewis and his directors into willingness to compromise, Mr. Taylor was then beset from another quarter. Some independent steelmen got wind of the Taylor-Lewis meetings, went to see Mr. Taylor. Apprised of the conversations, the independents argued heatedly for a wage boost instead of recognition. Mr. Taylor thought that wages were not the real issue and a wage increase could be avoided if recognition were granted. In this he was wrong. But confused by Big Steel's sudden refusal to play with them, the independents did nothing about their own scheme. In the time thus...
...their wish for Labor legislation. One important aspect of the Wagner Labor Act not involved in last week's decisions was the right of the Labor Board to order plant elections and give exclusive bargaining power for all to the representatives of the majority. With the boost given them by these decisions, no man doubted that it would be long before this right too is threshed out in the courts. Meantime, however, the Supreme Court had once more demonstrated Mr. Hughes's reverberating dictum: "The Constitution is what the Judges say it is." Last week nearly every lawyer...
...years has been largely made in other types than newsprint, notably kraft and paperboard. Paperboard (boxes) accounts for nearly one-half the total U. S. paper production. So great is the current demand for paperboard containers that prices have jumped about 50% in the past four months, another boost last week carrying quotations to the highest level in ten years...