Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poling's connection with his church had been happy, but his tendency has always been expansive, his influence moving ever outward. Having played potent football at Dallas College (Oregon), having run for the Governorship of Ohio (1912) at the age of 28 chiefly to boost Prohibition (he was too young to hold office), having written novels and campaigned for Labor, he entered organized religion with energy unabated and was soon not only pastor of a big metropolitan church but editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald, President of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, President...
...transport operators boost air travel at this season, when traffic is desperately light and expensive planes must keep schedules? Universal Aviation Corp. last week sought to kill the trouble by offering $250 mileage books from which Universal's air conductors will tear fares exactly equal to railroad fare plus Pullman charges between any two points served. Thus: Kansas City to Chicago regular air rate is $45.75; the railroad-pullman rate, and hence the Universal mileage scrip rate, $21.03. Anyone can buy and use the books -doctor, lawyer, Indian chief...