Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Specifically he wanted: another wage boost of 20%; 14 paid holidays a year; triple time for working on holidays; six months free hospitalization every year; $400-a-month retirement pensions after 30 years. When negotiations bogged down, George set another strike deadline...
...Boost Forward Line...
...forward line, about which MacDonald professed to worry carlier in the season because of lack of reserves, got an added boost this week when Bob Smith and Arnold Cullinan, both fast wings, joined the squad. Smith appears to be an almost sure starter tomorrow...
...before the war, was assumed, along with other automakers, to break even at 35% of capacity, must now operate at 75% of capacity to break even. This year it has -made 280,000 cars so far-and lost $38,000.000 net. Last week Young Henry Ford got a 6% boost in his car ceilings. G.M. is also seeking a boost. But somewhere consumer resistance would...
...didn't turn her head. She stayed on the job (with the exception of a six-months' cruise to South America on a company tanker), trained many of her 100 offspring for ratting jobs in Bayonne homes and factories. Recently Minnie got a raise, a 37½% boost to cover increased living costs...