Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long and bitter fight over synthetic seemed to be over-the U.S. was rolling on the highway that led to enough rubber. The two plants which opened last week will produce, by themselves, three times Brazil's natural rubber output. Other plants scheduled for 1943 opening will boost this year's total production to about 250,000 tons, within respectable distance...
...President last week killed an inflationary threat. He vetoed the Bankhead bill, S.B. No. 660, the latest move by the Congressional farm bloc to boost farm prices. No. 660 was inflationary in that it would have excluded Federal farm benefit payments from the calculation of parity prices for price-ceiling purposes. This would automatically have provided a higher base for parity prices, and would thus have forced ceiling prices...
...borne advice from Free Danish leaders in London. The Germans presumably thought the elections would be good propaganda for their New Order, which is supposed to give non-Germans a better break than they have had up to now in Europe. Perhaps, too, they even hoped to boost the prestige of Danish Nazi leader Fritz Clausen. On the second count, at least, they were dismally wrong...
Outstanding Committee recommendations: 1) immediate unification of renegotiation administration and policy; 2) boost the exemption limit from $100,000 annual sales to $500,000, thus slash the number of companies to be renegotiated from 85,000 to 20,000; 3) eliminate duplicate Government audits (i.e., price board and income tax); 4) tone down procedure so that refunds will not be forced in a manner to hamper production. Finally, the Price Boards should reverse their "consistent attitude" and make some allowance for postwar reserves. Said the Committee: "It does not aid . . . the peacetime manufacturer who has been put out of business...
...boost tottering War Bond sales among Harvard undergraduates, Hollywood's Deanna Durbin has volunteered to send a letter and autographed picture to the student who buys the most bonds and stamps next week...