Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel industry viewed it, the shift from 8% a year to 3.5% a year was progress of a sort. "The settlement is neither black nor white," said Inland Steel's Board Chairman Joseph Block. "It's grey." With a grey settlement that postponed the first wage boost until next December, with their 1959 ledgers showing hefty profits despite the strike, and with demand for steel running heavy enough to assure high output during 1960, the steel companies had no pressing need to raise prices, hinted that they might hold off until year's end-and maybe beyond...
...were forced out of the center of the metropolis, had to commute to work by horse bus and rail. It was only in the U.S., with its spreading cities and changing population patterns, that the commuter came into his own as a widespread social phenomenon. He got a big boost from the introduction of the cut-fare commutation ticket for those who ride the rails daily...
...boost in social security benefits (a standard election-year ritual) plus an old-age medical-insurance program; the Administration opposes the insurance program on principle as a needless extension of federal intervention...
...economy of the countries where it does business. Starr's fast-growing Philippine American Life subsidiary has built middle-income housing in the islands, has also financed modern factory sites. His latest project: Philippine American is constructing model agricultural units to teach Filipino farmers better ways to boost crop yields...
...Hamilton Standard Division (propellers) will put on the market a machine, developed by West Germany's Carl Zeiss Foundation, that uses electron beams to weld, mill and drill hair-fine holes in the hardest known materials, e.g., quartz, tungsten, zirconium. An electron gun fires beams that boost the temperature on the surface of the material up to 11,000° F. ; it can cut 100 holes in a straight line across a pinhead, drill a sapphire watch bearing in six seconds, weld a tough nu clear reactor core. Lease price: about $25,000 a year...