Word: boost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bureau of Labor Statistics this week. No fewer than 735,000 moved from the unemployed list to jobs, 452,000 of them married men in the vital family breadwinner category. The recovering economy also brought enough additional workers (mainly young people and women) into the labor force to boost total employment by 1,200,000 to 65 million, biggest April working force in U.S. history...
...months the I.T.U. has been engaged in a bitter dispute with ten New York papers* on the subject of bogus. Negotiating for a new contract, the union committee has abandoned its showcase demands, e.g., a $30 weekly pay boost for a 30-hour week, settled for management's $7 offer, spread over two years. But to its bogus featherbed the I.T.U. clings for dear life...
...industry angrily disagreed. Chairman Avery C. Adams of Jones & Laughlin said that from 1940 to 1958 the industry's labor costs per man-hour increased 298%, while its shipments of steel products per man-hour increased only 30%. Thus, every recent wage hike kicked off a steel price boost (see chart). Adams and fellow executives contended that profits are still "inadequate" to support a wage hike. Even at last year's relatively high levels, steel's profits-to-assets ratio ranked 27th among the nation's 41 key industries. The "obvious" solution to wage-push inflation...
...while it looked as if Pakistan and India might patch up their differences in a defense agreement. Communist China's machinations in Tibet have had widespread effects, from the conciliatory talks in Karachi and New Delhi to proposals by Vice-President Nixon and Senator Kennedy that the U.S. boost India's rate of economic growth to that of China...
...share reported in the company's best and final quarter last year. Chrysler's retail sales from April 10 to April 20 were the highest in the past 17 months. Colbert said "considerable improvement" in earnings can be expected in the second quarter, when Chrysler plans to boost production to 300,000 cars and trucks, 40% above the first quarter...