Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willing & Able." The railroads, which use 110 million tons of coal a year (about one-fifth of the nation's annual production), had been clamoring for higher rates in order to meet employees' demands for a 20?-an-hour wage boost even before the new coal prices hit them. Now they would be clamoring louder than ever...
...years Raymond Cameron, 39, had dug coal in Cape Breton's pits. Last February, along with 13,000 other Maritime miners, he went on strike for more pay. Out of the 99-day strike, the miners got a basic $1-a-day pay boost, bringing the day's average to $12. But Miner Cameron was not satisfied with working conditions...
...sales in the first six months of 1947 reached a record high of approximately $51,377,000,000, more than in any full year before 1941. The U.S. Employment Service noted that employment was up to a new record of 58,300,000. It estimated that seasonal employment would boost the total to 59,300,000 by September. With prospects of industrial peace ahead, the stock market kept on advancing. The Dow-Jones industrial averages were up 4.43 points...
...knock at the door of the Interstate Commerce Commission sounded familiar. It sounded like the urgent rap of a man who knew his rights and wanted them fulfilled. It was the railroads again. Last year they had come seeking a 20% rate increase. They got 17.6%-a $1 billion boost in their annual revenues...
...railroads had some cogent arguments: since 1939, rates had risen only 17.6%, but wages had risen 53%, materials 60%. The war-boom increase in traffic was no longer enough to make up the difference. Furthermore, 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers are demanding a 20?-an-hour pay boost, which would add $572 million a year to railroad costs; the railroad brotherhoods are demanding 44 changes in operating rules, which the railroads claim would cost another billion. If these increases are granted, said the railroads, even a 16% rate increase will not be enough...