Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...N.F.T.W., which had started without sufficient strength, money or appreciation of the company's ability to keep the phones going, was desperately sending up trial balloons. It would be glad to take a $6-a-week wage boost and arbitrate everything else. Picket-line tension grew. In Detroit two strikers were injured and 22 arrested after a battle with police and nonstrikers reporting for work. In Milwaukee, one fun-loving picket paraded tauntingly in a baby buggy as a miserly "Ma Bell...
Working people-the backbone of Labor's support-would be hurt most by the tobacco boost.† A man with a ?5 weekly wage (about one-fifth of British wage earners get less) would have to spend about one-fourth of his pay to smoke one package of cigarets...
WASHINGTON, April 25-Hopes for settling the cross-country telephone strike rose tonight as the union cut its pay boost demand in half from $12 to $6 a week and a separate settlement was reached for the State of Maryland...
With a moral and financial boost from the Crimson, the Network got University recognition and set up studios in the now defunct Shepard Hall on Holyoke Street. Its executive board was, in the very beginning, a part of the Crimson masthead and largely peopled by Crimeds. It soon became obvious, however, that the Network was being run by Network men, and the two organizations began slipping apart in a complicated series of negotiations that came to an end only last week...
...inflation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Canada took its price-control pills and kept its economic temperature down. But the Dominion, afraid that controls, like drugs, might be habit-forming, recently took controls off a long list of consumer goods, from candy bars to Cadillacs. Last week it authorized a 10% boost in rents. The economic temperature rose. This week Canada was running a low fever...