Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan arrived Captain Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Bahamas, to place contracts for publicity and advertising to boost next season's U. S. winter-resorting in Nassau...
Lizard-Eaters- Two months ago Capt. Hans Bertram, 27, and Mechanic Adolph Klaussmann took off from Koepang. Timor Island, for Darwin, Australia, 500 mi. south. In their Junkers seaplane Atlantis they had left Germany three months prior, on a tour to boost German trade. From Koepang they never reached Darwin. For weeks flyers and foot parties searched the bush of Australia's north coast. Last month some black natives found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously...
...sales promotion to cover shoddiness. He feels restoration of real value will be one of the first steps towards economic recovery. Last week his newly formed National Quality Maintenance League (which includes makers of woolens, silks, velvets, millinery, shoes, hosiery, handbags, underwear) was preparing a broad educational campaign to boost values, to calm down advertising writers. Many worsted & woolen makers feel that right now women do not want high quality so much as low price because of rapid style changes. They think "high styling" will have to halt before the buyers will pay for durability...
...Boost & Beneficiaries, Free to pick and claw as it chose, the House consented to a general 11 % cut in the Federal payroll but only after boosting the minimum wage exemption from $1,000 to $2,500.* Packed in the galleries were the embattled beneficiaries of this increased exemption, Government clerks who clapped and cheered with delight. President Hoover's alternative plan of enforced furloughs staggered through the year was summarily rejected by the House. All salaries of the Federal Reserve Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Farm Board, the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Veterans' Administration and Tariff Commission were reduced...
...like most expensive, long-winded benefits. Big, shambling Heywood Broun introduced famed playwrights and authors who stepped out on the platform, allowed the audience to look at them. Grover Whalen, the city's greatest handshaker, pompously read a paper describing the Cause and used all his superlatives to boost the talent which followed: Sopranos Evelyn Herbert and Hulda Lashanska (whose name Mr. Whalen could not pronounce), Violinist Francis MacMillen, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Composer George Gershwin who carried along a lagging orchestra while he played the piano part of his Rhapsody in Blue...