Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract-signing session with Chairman Edgar Kaiser of California's Kaiser Steel Corp. (2% of steel capacity). Steelman Kaiser (see BUSINESS), refusing to stick with other operators through the injunction procedure, signed a 20-month union contract giving his 7,500 employees a yearly wage-and-fringe-benefit boost worth 11.25? an hour, only a quarter of a cent more than the last industry-wide offer. To the Kaiser company, the terms made special sense because of its special situation, which includes a $14-a-ton West Coast premium on certain steel shapes, a newer work force costing less...
...Admitted 50 secondary schools (and 37 more colleges) to C.E.E.B. membership for the first time. Reason: with more curriculums based on college tests, the schools want a voice in running C.E.E.B. ¶ Heard a prediction from C.E.E.B. President Frank Bowles that the average U.S. college within 25 years will boost requirements by one full year-applying the same standards to incoming freshmen as it does now to sophomores...
...plumped down with a sociologist, a historian and a literary critic. "That first luncheon," he said, "was like opening windows in a stuffy room." Equally impressive is Yale Neurosurgeon Karl Pribram's summation. For him the Casbah's value lay as much in a personal boost as in other people's ideas. "You have no administration, no classes, no students. You can evaluate your own work in terms of your own needs and wants, not society's. When you go back into the world, you can better gauge what you can fluff off-and what...
...Mississippi (6-0)-drubbed tough Arkansas, 28-0, as Charlie Flowers scored twice to boost his All-America candidacy...
...beyond the cost of the ad. They pushed California's Paul Masson brandy by poking fun at bourbon ("Kentucky is a great place for breeding horses") and vodka ("If you can't see it, taste it, or smell it, why bother?''), helped their client boost champagne and brandy sales 46% in two years...