Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy with rumors that General Motors had just snagged the world's biggest private bank credit-$500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 at perhaps 2½% interest. Partly guaranteed by the Government under newly enacted Regulation V of the Federal Reserve System, the new loan will bolster G.M.'s working capital ($518,000,000 on March 31) to a point where the company can produce at least $6,000,000,000 in war goods in 1943-four times its biggest peacetime year...
Coach Barnaby is very well satisfied with the showing of the Freshmen, five of whom are still in the tournament. He is counting on some of them, especially Brandt, Moley, and Warren, to bolster the Varsity team under the new ruling which allows Freshmen to play on the Varsity...
...past years, this fee has been necessary in order to fatten Summer School finances, which were independent of the College's. Any extra revenue with which to bolster the budget was needed. In most cases students were either dropped Freshmen trying to get picked up again, dilettantes who took an auditor's pass anyway, or schoolteachers primarily interested in one or two specialized subjects, so there was little intellectual loss. But with 1800 undergraduates returning for the entire summer session, many of whom cannot officially take certain courses, yet must audit them for their general examinations, it is unfair...
...significant U.S. military mission arrived in London this week. Leading it were Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, Army Air Force Chief, and Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief of the Navy's aeronautics bureau. U.S. pilots & planes had already arrived to bolster the R.A.F.'s second front in the air; now the nation's two air chiefs followed...
...second anniversary of his Prime Ministership, Winston Churchill said in effect that the turning point in World War II had arrived. He said it persuasively. Nothing bucks up a Prime Minister like victories, and Churchill had Madagascar, the terrific R.A.F. raids on Germany, and the Coral Sea to bolster his spirits...