Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Association also called for approval of the Bretton Woods International Bank, along with an "adequate" currency stabilization plan. To supplement the lending power of the International Bank, the Association would boost the capital of the Export-Import Bank and the RFC, and would open the U.S. door to private loans abroad by dropping the Johnson...
...increases. Thus, the incentive will be to turn out cheap instead of expensive goods. Bowles estimates that this will save consumers $17,000,000 a year on cotton goods, another $21,000,000 on rayon. And it will distribute between the manufacturer, the jobber and the converter the 5% boost in the cost of cotton goods caused by the amendment of cotton-loving Senator John H. Bankhead to the Stabilization Extension Act (TIME, Oct. 9). In addition, OPAster Bowles hopes that most clothing prices will be rolled back 1.5%. But the main goal is to keep them from rising higher...
Ohio. P.A.C. failed to push Ohio into the Democratic column; it was even unable to boost F.D.R.'s Cleveland plurality to its 1940 figure of 138.000. P.A.C. had concentrated on Senator Taft. His statewide plurality was kept down to 22,000 against a weak candidate (from a high of 170,000 in 1938). But not even this was a clear-cut accomplishment for P.A.C.; Bob Taft's isolationism had definitely hurt...
Washington. In this labor-conscious state, a well-organized P.A.C. helped boost registration. But it was largely a superorganized A. F. of L. which spearheaded the resounding Democratic sweep, ousting even popular Governor Arthur Langlie...
...lined up a potent phalanx of publishers-Charles Scribner's Sons, Little Brown & Co., Book-of-the-Month Club and Harper & Bros.-to meet the Field invasion. Along with Random House, they had purchased slipping Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., which specialized in cheap reprints. The syndicate planned to boost Grosset & Dunlap back to the top. As a starting booster, they plucked short, chunky John O'Connor, 52, out of his job as vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp. (World Book Encyclopedia), this week put him in as the new boss of G. & D. An old hand...