Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAILROADS: Six shopcraft unions were demanding a 7% pay hike the first year and a 5% increase in the second year for their 137,000 machinists, boilermakers, car men, electricians, firemen and oilers. The workers now average between $2.81 to $3.40 an hour. The railroads offered a 5% salary boost...
...thinly veiled warning issued last month by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who said that European countries are inviting economic retaliation by their failure to help the U.S. end its balance-of-payments deficit. Last week, in a subtle move giving substance to that message, the U.S. offered to boost its dollar aid to poor countries through the World Bank only if an increased share of the bank's loans was used to buy U.S. products. Moreover, Washington insisted that the U.S. share of such "soft loan" largesse be trimmed from its present 42% to 40%. However unpopular abroad, such...
...street parking in Baltimore. The legislature also adopted the state's first billion-dollar budget and passed a long-needed tax-reform measure, replacing the flat 3% state income tax with a graduated levy of from 2% to 5%, which will give Maryland a much-needed revenue boost of $120 million a year...
SHAPE had overall charge of 50 American and Canadian bases and 26,000 troops, which required some 820,000 tons of equipment that ranged from warplanes to pool tables. In addition, its 70,000 dependents were a boost to local French economies...
...past 27 years, "Mr. Mac," as he is known to his 46,000 teammates, has built and babied his McDonnell Co. from nothing into a $1 billion-a-year corporation. With his performance in the manufacture of Mercury and Gemini space capsules, he gave U.S. astronauts an essential boost into space. His jet planes were among the few ready to carry U.S. airmen into combat in Korea; for Viet Nam he has produced the F-4 Phantom, the hottest fighter yet flown in combat by any air force in the world. By his dedication to technical precision, he has turned...