Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PARIS, Dec. 15--President Eisenhower, on the eve of NATO's summit conference, opened the way a little wider for European acceptance of American nuclear missiles to bolster the alliance's front lines against the Soviet threat...
...Administration's decision to arm our NATO allies with IRBMissiles seems another hasty jump out of the frying pan into the fire. England and France have demonstrated in the Suez affair how sorely our allies may be tempted to take impulsive, independent action. Our eagerness to bolster the pride and might of our allies should not cause us to forget that the first atomic-armed missile fired by any NATO finger will shoot the U.S. into an all-out nuclear...
Finance Minister Donald Fleming rose in Parliament to outline what he called a bold program to bolster "confidence and prosperity." He cut 100,000 taxpayers from the rolls entirely, gave his most substantial reductions to the 70% of Canadians whose taxable incomes are $2,000 a year or less; e.g., a $5,000-a-year wage earner with two children will save $64. Even though the Tories had earlier poured $150 million into higher old-age pensions and pay boosts for the armed forces and civil service, Fleming still came out in the black (predicted surplus: $80 million). For this...
...over 1958 prospects: 91% expected that their sales would exceed or equal 1957; eight out of ten thought profits would be better or at least as good; only 1% expected to cut production. In Hollywood, Fla. 1,050 conventioneers at the Investment Bankers Association predicted that easier money will bolster the slump in capital investments, that record personal incomes will lift consumer buying to new peaks, that low inventories will be rebuilt and spur manufacturing. To cool down recession talk, the New York Federal Reserve Bank made one of its rare public predictions, said that "the period of most severe...
From Detroit, first reports showed that the new autos are selling well enough to bolster automakers' expectations of a 6,000,000-plus car year. General Motors' Chevrolet division, gearing production closely to sales, last week rolled out 38,900 cars v. 31,729 in the Thanksgiving week of 1956, and Cadillac output is 14% ahead of last year's rate...