Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neatest financial trick of the week was accomplished by Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: By reducing the Government subsidy on cotton exports, he helped boost the price of cotton. He originally got a $36,000,000 fund with which to subsidize exports. He spent about $32,500,000, paying 1½?a Ib. to subsidize exports of 4,344,434 bales. To conserve the balance of this fund, the subsidy was cut in half, midnight, Dec. 5. A few days later, it was cut to 2/5?, again last week to 1/5?. Anxious to share in the Government subsidy before...
...speeds without consulting the union-but gripes about speeds may be appealed to the grievance board. The union succeeded in throwing out the old, ineffective ban against any & all strikes, gave an absolute pledge not to sitdown, stayin, slowdown. On wages, the union asked a general 10?-per-hour boost for Chrysler's 58,000 workers, dropped to 5?, got 3? (plus additional raises for 5,000 in special classifications). Total annual wage increase: about...
Thus Philadelphia's transit system finally emerged from behind the eight ball. The reorganization will save $5,800,000 in fixed charges each year-enough to boost 1935's $6,139,654 loss toward a 1940 profit. It will also free enough cash to get the company started on a 10-year, $22,000,000 modernization program to replace its lumbering trolley cars and sway-backed busses...
Ives played in the forward line all of last year and has now practically run the gamut of the positions. Edgar, a big, fast player who has complete control of the ball with either foot, is expected to boost the power of the forwards...
...Tamiroff and John Howard, with their superb acting, are responsible for making "Disputed Passage" a good picture. With Tamiroff as the surgeon of fame and Howard as the struggling, idealistic medical student, the action centers around the byplay between these two characters which gives the picture just the poignant boost it needs...