Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HIGHWAYS. Along with his housing message, Ike gave Congress notice that he did not like the highway-financing plan just voted by the House Ways & Means Committee, chaired by Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills (see below). The committee proposal to boost the federal gasoline tax by 1? a gallon to get the nearly stalled federal-state highway program fueled up again was a "step in the right direction," said Ike (he had urged a 1½ increase), but he objected to the proposal to channel about half the revenue from federal taxes on automobiles and parts into the highway trust fund...
...colony's beer coolers, began making refrigerators and home freezers, and bought radio-TV time to sell the wares. By 1950, when his business got big enough to need more capital, he got Iowa financiers to pay Amana $1,750,000 for the plant. The money helped boost Amana Society's original $50 stock to its present value: $3,600 a share...
...wage raise would necessitate a price rise. It showed that since 1951 the industry's wage-and-benefit costs per ton of steel have gone up from $32 to $44, while its price per ton has gone from $125 to $173-a $48 price rise, v. a $12 boost in employment costs...
...productivity from 1947 to 1957 rose only 3% a year, v. 3.1% for all manufacturing. That was an unspectacular performance, both by steel workers whose wages have been rising by an average 6.4% a year, and by steel management, which claims that it is spending so much to boost its efficiency ($1 billion a year) that it cannot afford a modest wage hike or price...
...railroads and coal mining-and 75,000 of them have applied for unemployment aid. But there is not yet any shortage of steel for defense plants, and none looms in the near future. Foreign steelmakers were supplying part of the demand, used the situation to boost their prices-normally $30 to $40 per ton below U.S. mill prices-to the U.S. level or higher...