Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Council efficiency came one step closer last Fall, when the group streamlined what was once an amazingly tangled network of committees, sub-committees, etc. Now the Council must eliminate more of the kinks, and see if it can't boost its batting average...
...salary was a big boost over Boudreau's 1948 pay of $52,000, and (according to Veeck) "by far the largest straight salary ever offered a player by the club."* But Lou had earned it with his spectacular triple performance-as the American League's best shortstop, its best hitter (.355) after Boston's Ted Williams, and manager of the league and world's champions. President Veeck threw in a handsome admission: "Sure, I tried to trade the guy off [in 1947]. But the fans wouldn't stand for it . . . So Boudreau made...
...finishing a $50 million postwar expansion program, Cat is going to turn out the new diesel and step up production of diesel-powered Caterpillars to grade roads, dig foundations, clear jungles and move mountains all over the world. With its new production Cat hopes to boost its sales, already the highest in its history. Last year, on a gross of $218 million, Cat reported a net profit of $13.7 million, nearly 40% over...
...Aircraft Co., Inc. plans to regroom and speed up the 13-year-old DC-3, the obsolescent workhorse of the airlines. To meet new competition, Douglas, which stopped building the plane four years ago, will increase the passenger seats of the "Threes" from 21 to 28. New engines will boost their cruising speed as much as 45 m.p.h. (to 234 m.p.h.). Other changes: a square-tipped wing, and built-in steps for quicker passenger loading...
...cotton men dropped in on secondhand bag dealers in key U.S. cities and convinced them that they could profitably boost their business by buying used bags from bakers, processing them into tea towels, and selling them through retailers. Bag dealers were soon buying bakers' used cotton bags for as much as 25? apiece, thus cutting the original cost to bakers to around 7?-well under paper prices...