Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal is being dug. The Army Service Forces, busily fixing up the railroads and clearing the canals, soon hope to have them in shape. As yet, Ruhr production is small-only 500,000 tons of low quality coal (brown coal or lignite) a month. But the Allies hope to boost this to 3,500,000 tons 'of hard coal and 2,500,000 tons of brown coal by Christmas. While this is far less than Germany's prewar production in the Ruhr (9,000,000 tons of hard coal and 4,000,000 tons of brown coal...
When the catalogue listing course offerings for 1945-46 appeared in May, the SERVICE NEWS commented that Liberal Arts education at Harvard had "received its most forthright and encouraging boost since the start of the second world war." Strikingly evident in the new course list was the emphasis on the Soviet Union by the Economics, Geography, and Anthropology Departments...
When the catalogue listing course offerings for 1945-46 appeared last month, the SERVICE NEWS commented that Liberal Arts education at Harvard had "received its most forthright and encouraging boost since the start of the second world war." Strikingly evident in the new course list was the emphasis on the Soviet Union by the Economics, Geography, and Anthropology Departments...
...roomful of crackling wartime caricatures - tures-Axis in Agony - went on the auc tion block in Manhattan this week to boost bond sales. The drawings were the work of topnotch Commercial Artist Boris Artzybasheff, who did them originally as Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. advertise ments. Most of Caricaturist Artzybasheff's 32 imaginative, humorous, smoothly competent wash drawings show the Axis coming out second best against U.S. industrial might. In Artzybasheff's fancy: ¶A crisscross pattern of steel wire becomes a cage for three hoary, gaping primates with the faces of Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo...
Ceiling Zero. In Muskegon, Mich., the local OPA, with no jurisdiction over commercial buildings, started searching for new offices when its landlord proposed to boost the rent from $175 to $600 a month...