Word: boost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manufacturer may boost prices if his profit before taxes is equal to or above his average profit between...
...Distributors may not boost prices on the basis of higher replacement costs, i.e., out of fear that costs are going...
...those who had postponed price increases as long as they could would be punished by a rollback. By the same token, the steel companies which raised their prices on Dec. 1 would be left alone, but manufacturers who raised prices on Dec. 2 to compensate for the steel boost would have to roll them back. Said one Chicagoan: "[Rolling] back prices in the face of higher costs must have been the system Mr. Truman used in [his] haberdashery to insure his going out of business...
...supply of vital cobalt for the radio and television industry. From General Electric Co.'s new President Ralph J. Cordiner came a hint of how much war production would be stepped up in the future. Said he: G.E., whose production is already 22% in war goods, would boost the proportion to one-third or more...
...boost its steel production, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. last week announced a $90 million expansion of its East Chicago (Ind.) mill. With 75 new coke ovens and a new 1,400-ton blast furnace, the new plant will raise Youngstown's steel ingot capacity by 20%, its pig iron capacity by 15%. When the new ovens are finished, Youngstown will move from sixth place among the steelmakers into a tie with fifth-place National Steel Corp. (capacity of each: 5,200,000 tons...