Word: boost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in Wall Street the franc's turn for the worse intensified the current jitters over the outlook for U. S. money rates. Another boost in bank reserve requirements to sop up potential credit had been expected for months. That the move would mean a reversal in the long downward trend of interest rates was by no means a remote possibility, and bond prices accordingly tumbled...
...National Labor Relations Board which would order an election. Making peace as well as making war was part of John L. Lewis' strategy. In Detroit a 24-day strike of Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., makers of parts for Ford and others, was settled with an agreement to boost minimum wages from 50^ to 65^ an hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks again failed...
...there have been 16 different incidents that might have led to war. Germany isn't going to go out and tackle England, Russia and France without a major Europeanally. She isn't ready for war economically or politically. Of course, a Fascist victory in Spain will be a great boost for Fascism all over the world, and so the outcome in Spain will be a determining factor in the speed of liberal movements everywhere...
...defunct Monroe Doctrine if, on the basis of the Good Neighbor Policy, a great neutral bloc could be created in the Americas, assuring mutual American economic, political and military self-sufficiency if Europe and Asia should be engulfed in war. Such a creation might well be a springboard to boost the U. S. President to a place of direct influence in world politics, through the medium of belligerent boycott. Such a hope may well have inspired Franklin Roosevelt's eagerness to dash to Buenos Aires at a time when there were plenty of problems waiting for him in Washington...
...this year the Freshmen have been doing a lot of work while most of the Varsity aspirants have yet to get down to steady practice. Bill Schmidt got a special boost from Neufeld, however, for the work that he's been doing so far, while most of the members of the cross country team should be in pretty good shape still...