Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that Japan has restricted cotton (and partially restricted wool and rayon) to army use only. But Japanese production of finished silk goods has declined, suggesting that Japanese: 1) may be hoarding silk as a hedge against inflation, or 2) deliberately creating a shortage in order to boost prices and make a killing before new synthetic silks start to compete in the U. S. market...
...first time every major-league team will have at least one sponsor. Procter & Gamble Co., for example, will broadcast some of the New York Yankees, Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers games to boost Ivory Soap. Atlantic Refining Co.-sponsoring a share of the games of the two Boston teams, the two Philadelphia teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and a host of minor leaguers-will give players $5 books of gas-&-oil coupons for home runs and shutouts. Socony-Vacuum will cover twelve major-league teams, many minors. Biggest plunger of all will be a perennial baseball sponsor, General Mills Inc., with...
Clad in a Crimson sweater for Harvard and also competing to give his beloved Lowell House an unofficial boost in the Straus trophy race, Irving M. Clark '41 literally shoveled 23 live goldfish down his threat before amazed onlookers in the Union last night as he hung up a new Harvard and Intercollegiate mark in his specialty event...
...profitable newspapers: the six on the Pacific Coast. The Los Angeles Herald & Express makes $1,000,000 a year, the Examiner $500.000. The San Francisco Examiner is another $1,000,000 paper. The Call-Bulletin and Oakland's Post-Enquirer earn far less, but stand to get a boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These papers will probably survive as a string long...
...offered a solution, the abolition of compulsory Annuities. This would enable her to use her $12 to fill the immediate need for which the money was earned. But the Union has neglected Suzie. As yet no demands by the Union or provisions by the University have been made to boost the retirement income of low-wage employees. Suzie's case is therefore far more desperate than Jenny's. Obviously Suzie can not take much more out of her present wages to contribute to the Pension Plan and still keep her financial nose above water. Yet it stands to reason that...