Word: boost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then no longer did the U. S. have to boost the world price: in Montreal, in London, in Shanghai and Bombay every-one wanted to own, no one to sell silver. In two days the world price passed the U. S. price, went right on up to 81?. Mining stocks boomed the world over. Fortunes poured into speculators' pockets...
...which are supposed to exist, but more than twice the world's recent (1931-34) annual output. For practical purposes the U. S. had already cornered most of the floating supply. Eager to profit from the corner, speculators helped the U. S. boost the world price to the U. S. price, 71?. Last week when it reached that level, Franklin Roosevelt raised the ante for a second time, put the U. S. price...
...eight which he will send to Cambridge. The squad is so large this year at Princeton and so many of the boys are so evenly matched that the Tiger coach has had a hard time putting together his Varsity. As it is, it will not be the same boost which will race on the Charles that beat Penn A. C. Many shifts have been made in the bostings. Jack Kelly and Hank Bugbee have been advanced to the first boat to replace Grant Armstrong and Bud Smith...
Ontario's cherished low power rates were Premier Hepburn's excuse for tearing up Hydro's contracts. If Hydro lived up to them, it would have to boost rates to carry the costs of the power it cannot sell. Since someone must hold the bag and there was no visible method of passing it to the opposition, the Premier decided that it should be held by the securities holders of the private companies...
...flocked many an Old Guardsman seeking to put the President in a hole, many a Democrat who wanted to curry favor with the A. F. of L., many a Senator who believed that five billions for relief was too much, that the surest way of killing it was to boost the figure so much higher that the President could not accept it. Shrewd Huey Long, striving to wreak his vengeance on the Administration, succeeded at the last minute in transferring a critical "pair." Result: the prevailing wage amendment won 44-to-43-24 Democrats deserting the President, all but four...