Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Built to make nonstop, coast-to-coast flights for TWA, the Constellation has a range of 4,000 miles, can carry 57 passengers and a crew of seven. Her four 2,500-h.p. motors can boost her along at 283 m.p.h. cruising speed (100 m.p.h. faster than present transports), can rev it up to 350 m.p.h. The Constellation will be able to streak across the continent in eight and a half hours (four and a half hours faster than TWA's fastest...
...began hanging around airports craning his neck at planes. By 1931 he was a T.W.A. director; by 1933 an officer or director of Western Air Express, Eastern Air Lines, Pan American Airways. Then G.M. made Breech head of wobbly North American Aviation (29.1% G.M.-controlled), told him to boost production and do it fast. Breech did: North American's sales last year were about $100,000,000 against...
...Good Neighbor policy (rubber division) got another boost last week when President Roosevelt vetoed a bill which would have encouraged the growing of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants. His objection: the bill's encouragement was confined to the U.S.; he wanted Mexican and Brazilian rubber promoted too. A Senate committee hastily revised the bill to promote guayule-growing anywhere in the Western Hemisphere...
Princeton plays host to the Varsity wrestling team today as the Crimson matmen attempt to boost a weak record of two wins and three defeats to the .500 mark...
Business Manager Aldrich Durant has pointed out that the present restriction on beverages will soon be lifted, and that other limitations may also go by the board-all without an increase in the weekly rate. He also notes that a return to the former system will mean a boost in prices to at least $10.00 weekly, and probably more...