Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rather than boost rates to consumers so that Hydro could honor these sour contracts, Premier Hepburn proposes by act of the Ontario Parliament to repudiate them as "illegal, void & unenforceable...
...bitter fight in Tennessee's Supreme Court, broke the grip of the Church. Then, with the Vanderbilts behind him, he made himself autocrat. Several millions of dollars from the Vanderbilts and more from the Rockefellers' General Education Board enabled him to get together a respectable faculty, boost the admission requirements. Throughout the South, church colleges followed Vanderbilt's lead in declaring their independence, raising their standards...
...meeting of the Eastern Rugby Union of America held in New York over the weekend a new constitution was adopted to help boost the game in America. At the same time measures were adopted for arranging future tours of English rugger teams in this country...
Purpose of the meeting of tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists was to wave the U. S. flag, kick the New Deal, boost the Liberty League, damn bankers, irritate the petroleum industry and, most sincerely, to help the U. S. farmer earn a living by showing him and the rest of the nation how chemistry can turn farm products to industrial account...
...country. In March 1933 the U. S. knew what it was like to have all men suddenly want gold above all else. Last week silver standard China had a taste of the same, though silver instead of gold was the metal wanted. Ever since the U. S. began to boost the price of silver, China has had deflation. In vain the Chinese Government imposed a silver export duty. Silver was smuggled out. When silver prices last week sailed toward Heaven, China grew desperate. Finance Minister Kung appealed to all patriotic Chinese to keep their silver at home. Chinese Ambassador...