Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the flexible tariff law to boost the duty on zippers, thereby pleasing two loyal Democratic Senators, Guffey of Pennsylvania and Lonergan of Connecticut, who have in their constituencies the two big U. S. zipper makers...
...board chairman. For Mr. Hawkins the shift was not only a hard-earned promotion but the fulfillment of a precedent which has become part of U. S. journalistic tradition. For 30 years, as Bill Hawkins and Roy Howard have climbed the publishing ladder, Big Bill has repeatedly helped boost his little friend up a rung, then succeeded to the perch himself with his next step...
...TARIFF BOOST WORRIES JAPANESE...
...first three months of 1936. Against the $5,000,000 per year which the U. S. spends for Japanese cotton cloth, Japan spends about $110,000,000 per year for U. S. raw cotton. Last week news of the U. S. tariff boost caused Yoshihisa Shikamura, managing director of Japan's great Fuji Gas Spinning Co., to exclaim: "Our cotton industry will suffer a severe blow, and it is necessary to take immediate countermeasures. It would be impossible to prohibit all American cotton imports, but we can reduce them by 20% or 30%, by substituting cotton from Egypt, Brazil...
...always tended to regard his dealers as a regrettable nuisance. In 1930 Ford dealer discounts were only 17%, far below the profit margin allowed by other motormakers. Then after Son Edsel Ford began to speak up more frequently at company councils, the rate was upped to 20%. Another boost to 22% soon followed. Last week, in the wake of a poor first quarter showing, Ford again hiked its dealer discounts, this time...