Word: boost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down all three of Pittsburgh's dailies ended last week and the papers came out again. For the 400 mailers and delivery drivers, whose strike had forced the publishers to lay off their other 2,400 employees and close up shop, there was a 10?-an-hour wage boost, with 3½? more after nine months. But the question of whether the 2,800 employees of the papers should collect $1,700,000 in back pay, as they demanded, was still up in the air, would have to be settled by arbitration. The Pittsburgh Press, which along with...
...ready for the type of streamlining Goslin proposed. When he asked for pre-season teacher-training, his board voted it down as frivolous and too expensive. When he suggested that Pasadena set up summer-school camps, citizens howled that the scheme smacked of collectivism. When he backed a 50% boost in the school tax, Pasadena thundered "no" at the polls by a vote...
...promotion department of Hearst's big (circ. 347,467) Los Angeles Examiner, the world's sorry state offered a fine chance to boost circulation. Asked the Examiner last week: "What are you doing to protect your precious personal papers and valuable documents in the event of atomic bombing?" Sure that few Angelenos were doing anything, the Examiner printed a coupon entitling them to get their insurance policies and other documents microfilmed at Examiner headquarters for 25?/ apiece. The Examiner promised, in addition, to deposit one copy safely in a vault in Colorado Springs. One Examiner reader was unimpressed...
...traditional ten cent glass of beer in local places of relaxation may very well follow that of New York to a 15-cent bracket, according to local proprietors. At a "publicans guild" meeting in New York City on Tuesday the five cent price boost was voted almost unanimously...
...There is reason to believe," admits John Cronin of Jim Cronin's, "that Massachusetts, being in the same shipping category as New York, may be forced to follow the trend." Cronin explained yesterday that several factors, beyond raised transportation costs for midwestern beverages, could bring about the boost. Primary among these factors, he explained, are 20 percent cuts by the government in agricultural necessities--corn, wheat, and hops--and a reduction in the availability of glass, steel...