Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cents hourly wage hike, although its members presently receive $2.51 an hour plus fringe benefits, highest in the nation. The transit authorities, on the other hand, have proposed nine pages of work rule changes designed to save $2 million annually, and will probably refuse to grant another wage boost...
...other big problems are power and transportation. Brazil's Amazon development board has built or is building plant to boost power by 61,000 kw. It has cut roads into millions of empty acres and most important, has connected the Amazon basin to the rest of Brazil by a 1,363 mile jungle highway from Belém south to the new capital of Brasilia...
...thirds of the consumer's purchases, reached a sales total of $12 billion in October. Bigger gains have been run up in the durable field (see chart), where October sales hit $6.3 billion, up 17% over last year and nearly 10% over September. The durables got a hefty boost in October from soaring sales of Detroit's 1960 auto models, will probably level off this month because of a shortage of cars caused by the steel strike...
Both sides refuse to accede in this battle, which has already started at the conference-table level. Item 1: Management has demanded an across-the-board wage slash for employees, while the Four Brotherhoods and the non-operating unions have insisted upon an unconditional boost. Item 2: The industry demands the right to change work rules hallowed by tradition and by the seemingly partial administration of the Railway Labor Act; labor categorically refuses any such changes. Item 3: Management has taken out six-month insurance to cover overhead in the event of a prolonged stoppage...
...trim (5 ft., 8½ in., 144 lbs.), handsome Charlie Revson ran into some embarrassing new facial shades: Quiz Pink and Umbrage Blue. As sponsor of the rigged $64,000 Question and $64,000 Challenge-which in four years helped triple Revlon's sales to $111 million and boost its profits sevenfold to $9.7 million-Revson was the center of a controversy over what part, if any, he played in the rigging. Revson denied all, told a congressional committee: "I was flabbergasted...