Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visits. President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sipped tea one afternoon with Mr. Chen, Mr. Koo, Mr. Kuo and Ambassador Sze, emissaries of China, who were there to make polite inquiries about the future of their country, inasmuch as the New Deal had seen fit to boost the price of silver so high as to force China off the silver standard.* Another set of callers included Vice President Garner, Senator Fletcher of Florida and Senator Brown of New Hampshire, who sought the President's help in concocting a measure to revive the Florida Ship Canal and Maine...
Handy had 55 men playing for him when in 1909 he was hired to boost a Memphis politician named Edward Hull Crump, who was running for Mayor. Handy wrote a song, played it on Memphis street corners...
Principal action taken by the Bank of France last week was to boost the rediscount rate from 5% to 6%, the normal central banking method of inducing capi tal to remain in a country. But the flight from the franc continued...
...last two years there has been a steadily increasing amount of family unscrambling combined with a marked rise in the marriage rate. Both boost the demand for living quarters, inspiring landlords to raise rents when leases expire and encouraging them to hold out for their asking price instead of accepting the first bid, as they were only too glad to do during the lean years...
...disastrous trip to Princeton, the Varsity tennis team will journey to Columbia tomorrow for a match with the supposedly weak New York netmen. The presence of both Jim Thackers, at number one, and Gordie Robertson at number 5, unable to participate in the Bengal match due to divisional, should boost the team considerably...