Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallons of 100-octane during May, with even greater consumption due in months to come. But if refiners can produce even a little more than they are making now, PAW is confident that production will somehow exceed the 1944 estimates of 196,000,000 bbl. To help the boost, they will get 400,000 bbl. of butylenese, diverted this week by Rubber Director Col. Bradley Dewey from the rubber progrram to octane manufacture...
...overall drag (air resistance) is so low that when the wheels are down the drag is doubled. The flying controls are so delicately balanced that no auxiliary power or "boost" is necessary for the pilot to operate them. This conserves the "feel" that flyers value so much. Test pilots call theB-29 a very "sweet" airplane...
...went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity of the war is run with as little waste." Even New York's Roosevelt-baiting John Taber, No. 1 congressional critic of OWI, supported the boost in appropriations. Most impressive display to Republicans: a copy of a Turkish newspaper, containing a smashing big picture and full biography of Tom Dewey, which the OWI had sent to the paper...
...which it lacked; 2) granted Rank a plum he has long sought-distributing facilities in the U.S., through Twentieth Century, for his British films. In addition, Twentieth Century and Rank will team up on two to four big-budget pictures this year (cost: $1,000,000 each) and will boost this to eight after...
Twentieth Century now has a plan afoot -devised by Spyros-which may boost his income substantially. Fortnight ago Twentieth Century stockholders by a vote of 1,569,000 to 100,000 shares (largest vote in company history) approved a plan to give Spyros and 19 other company executives options to buy 140,000 shares of Twentieth Century stock in the next eight years at 24-¼:. As president, Skouras can buy 70,000 shares. The rest will be split among 19 officials, down to an assistant sales manager (salary $15,000 a year...