Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend as he chooses and would prefer a dole costing only half as much; 2) politicos who want to cut the $4,000,000,000 up into so many slices of pork; 3) Liberals and Progressives, many of whom would like to double the sum spent and boost work relief pay from a subsistence level ($50 a month) to prevailing wage rates; 4) Inflationists who want to finance the program with greenbacks...
...issue was settled: the Senate would not be hurried, would fight the matter out. In committee the Conservatives just missed victory when an amendment to substitute the dole for work relief failed by a tie vote; the Liberals won a temporary victory by a 12-to-8 vote to boost relief wages to prevailing rates; the Inflationists lost on a greenback amendment. But these were inconclusive skirmishes, to be refought in the Senate. Despite opposition only a major accident was likely to upset the Administration's plans because 1) its bill is in effect a compromise which...
...Labor, at that time wired him from a sickbed: IF I HAD BEEN THERE THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. Thus Laborite Lewis now finds himself personally allied with Johnson, driven out of NRA largely by Labor's fire, and leagued against Richberg, the man Labor originally helped boost into...
...founded the American Birth Control League. Patrick Cardinal Hayes, then simply Archbishop Hayes of New York, gave it a big boost by having the League's first convention raided...
...boost rural buying, Sears had slashed prices an average of 15%, with biggest reductions in dress goods, curtains, blankets, linens, piece goods. That brought Sears' price scale about on a level with Montgomery Ward which cut prices an average of 6% fortnight ago. Apparently the two biggest mail order houses in the land were convinced that retail prices would not rise for some time...