Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, fast-moving Mr. Johnson, still trying to get some of these materials released by WPB while he looked for other caches, got substantial encouragement for his small business plan. WPB allocated 125,000 tons of steel in the next quarter, a boost of 25,000 tons over the current quarter, for the manufacture of such civilian items as bobby pins, needles, stoves...
...Commissioned a colonel, he joyfully went to hacking red tape in Army procurement. His first job: boiling down procurement regulations from 1,500 pages to 100. He also set up a system of periodic pricing of war contracts to give industrialists an added incentive to cut costs and boost production (TIME, March...
...boost of the top compulsory-schooling age from 14 to 16, with compulsory part-time education up to 18. ^ More free milk, shoes, medicine for pupils and increased "amenities" in secondary schools...
Sandy-haired, retiring Lieut. Richard R. Bong last week became the No. 1 American fighter pilot of the Southwest Pacific. Flying a twin-engined Lightning over Lae, he blasted down two Zeros and two Messerschmitts to boost his confirmed kills...
...situation is a mess; some believe beer rationing is a temperance plot by the somewhat arid Mackenzie King Government; the much-heralded "cost of living bonus" to peg wages to prices hasn't satisfied labor; the Canadian farm bloc-as in the U.S.-is on the loose to boost farm prices...