Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since that date, however, nearly $450,000,000 worth of gold has been landed in the U. S., and excess reserves have mounted approximately the same amount. A continuation of gold imports at that rate for any length of time would boost excess reserves to such a figure that they would be beyond reach of the Reserve Board's present instruments of control...
Some employers, glad to conciliate labor, may not be wholly averse to such a change. In Chicago last week Mills Novelty Co., manufacturer of automatic vending and gambling machines, announced it would boost the pay of its 2,600 employes enough to compensate for the 1% pay-envelope tax. Said Fred H. Mills: "Following the tremendous vote of confidence given the President by the nation, we are sure that business is going to improve considerably. We believe that our company will be more able to bear the added burden of the tax on wages than our employes...
...counted. Several Republican victories and a majority of the close contests turned out, three or four days later, when every last ballot was counted, to be Democratic successes. Result was that the statisticians, having reported that Democrats had elected 26 out of 33 Governors, had two days later to boost their figure to 27 Democrats; having reported that there would be at least 315 Democrats in the House of Representatives, had to up this figure to 334 Democrats (against 89 Republicans, 7 Progressives, 5 Farmer-Laborites); having reported 73 Democrats in the Senate, had to revise up to 75 Democrats...
...Wood's men a fairly good idea of what to expect from Yale next Friday, inasmuch as the Elis have played and beaten the Gymnasts 2-1 already this year. Observers feel that the Crimson is approaching its best form and that a victory today will provide the boost necessary to meet Yale...
...subject of a general wage boost, now being agitated by U. S. Steel's company unions, Chairman Taylor was silent. Consensus is that steel wages will be upped as soon as steel consumers can be persuaded to pay higher prices for the metal. For once the nation's steelmen are not adverse to a general pay increase because that action might undercut the efforts of John Llewellyn Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organization which is out to unionize the citadel of the open shop...