Word: boost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Split Proceeds. In Spokane, the gunman who robbed Lyle Swenson, and failed to get away in a stalled car, offered to give part of the money back if Swenson would give the car a boost...
...that it will take a large measure of political union as well. EGA also realizes that the objective cannot be reached in a few years, and certainly not by 1952, when Marshall Plan aid to Europe ends. But EGA believes that nothing short of full economic integration can boost Western Europe's industrial output enough to end its dependence...
...emphasize better preparation for a man's first job. After all, Business School education, intensive as it may be, is developing the "able business administrator," not the salesman or assistant buyer. But while the corporation training programs can and do give non-Business School graduates a bit of a boost at the start, Harvard education can pay off at promotion time. Surveys have shown that the Business School man, even without the training in routines, isn't at all slow in adjusting himself to his first job, thanks to his indirect study of business as a whole...
Cancer research at the Medical School got a $100,000 boost from the American Cancer Society, the society announced yesterday. It did not disclose whether or not there would be restrictions on the expenditure of the money...
...obvious to railmen that something was wrong-and that something had to be done. The Eastern railroads, which had already had fare increases of 28% in about three years, thought that the answer lay in still higher fares. They asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 12½% boost. Last week they got it. But the increase apparently did not solve everything; the news that it had been granted merely started everyone asking again: "What's wrong with the railroads...