Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman participation in all undergraduate extra-curricular activities will be given a boost tonight at the Activities Meeting to be held at 7:30 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House...
...Boost buying power by lifting all taxes, i.e., income and excise from those earning $15, or less, a week...
...this would go down easily with most businessmen. But there was a bitter pill: Hopkins would boost the present wage-&-hour-act floor under wages from 40? an hour to "at least 50? and subsequently 60? an hour." (After the article appeared, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper drafted a Senate resolution to give the War Labor Board power to raise the floor to 65?.) This, said Planner Hopkins, smoothly ignoring all hold-the-line thinking, should bring approval from "enlightened businessmen." It would steady consumption "during the transition to peace...
...Boost...
After our years of effort at morale building to boost production in our plants, TIME [Sept. 11] tops them all with its story on the Grumman Co. and the planes it builds. I'm sure that all of the 22,000 people in our organization have read this story, and that their pride in their organization has been given a real boost. Each one will work just a little harder to see that the Navy continues to get the planes they need-when they need them...