Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. Texas Co., which led the way, downed its posted price from $1.10 to 75? a barrel. Oilmen had seen the cut coming for some time, for injunctions against proration agreements were piling up and gasoline stocks had become unwieldy. An abortive effort was made last October to boost the price of crude, but two Standard units refused to follow suit. Now the price is well under October levels. Though such stout proration-ists as President Charles Bismark Ames of American Petroleum Institute insisted that the Supreme Court decision does not impair the power of states to regulate production...
...newsreel photographers, traffic cops and star reporters. The occasion was just one more debut. A product of Manhattan's lower East Side was going to show how he could sing. But this one's name happened to be Alfred Emanuel Smith. He was making a debut to boost the New York Infirmary for Women & Children for which Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip's comely, energetic wife collects funds...
Died. Oramel Hinckley Simpson, 62, onetime (1926-28) Louisiana Governor, secretary of the State Senate (1908-24, 1932); of heart disease; in New Orleans. His sell-out to Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long in the three-cornered scramble for Governor in 1928 gave Long his real boost up to Governor, Louisiana's bossdom and the U. S. Senate...
...faculty will recite the affirmation mechanically, with the slightest suggestion of a hypocritical smirk at the faculty of such rigamarole; it would be equally futile to maintain that if a college man is not already mature enough to appreciate his opportunities, no more administration of an oath will boost him suddenly out of his adolescence...
...firm decided it was time to enter the more fertile publishing fields of the populous East. With wheat at 50? a bu., Western Home Monthly (headquarters: Winnipeg) found its readers broke. The magazine "went national," guaranteed an A. B. C. circulation of 180,000 by October 1932, a boost of some 60,000 over the distribution it then had. With a whoop of delight, last week the publishers announced that the goal had been reached. To celebrate they changed the journal's name to National Home Monthly. Subscribers had been tracked down by the hundreds throughout the verdant Eastern...