Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banks that struggle to keep track of some 18 billion ration points a month got a well-earned boost last week. For eight months they have operated "checking accounts" for U.S. retailers, who deposit their ration coupons periodically, then draw upon them to replenish their stocks. But although OPA is paying the banks some $12,000,000 a year for their pains, most of them arestill losing money on their deal with the Government. Last week, therefore, OPA raised their fees for opening and handling accounts by about 25%, to somewhere nearer the break-even point for the average bank...
Progressive education was enjoying a boost last week from the ranks of its professional enemies-the Essentialists. Widely known are the aims of the Progressives: informal learning through active experience; the development of initiative, responsibility and the mastery of basic subjects by encouraging pupils as individuals, with teachers acting more as guides than as formal instructors. Less familiar is Essentialism, although hosts of U.S. citizens lean toward the Essentialists. This educational wing would give pupils systematic training in traditional subjects; discipline is stressed and informal learning strictly subordinated...
Thus, says Wiess, what the U.S. is saving by gasoline rationing is only enough to balance the decrease in gasoline production, leaving no fat to absorb the tremendous increase in overall demand. Can the U.S. boost production to meet this...
...effort to boost its membership the Hasty Pudding Officers Club will hold another informal open house at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, Mrs. Helen L. Bowditch hostess and manager of the recently opened center, announced yesterday...
...Nuff said, Army Supply Officers; but let's boost the School average by next report time ... you can never be marked "unsat" for trying...