Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other sectors the Red Army was also surging forward. No less important strategically, if less of a boost to morale than the Moscow success, was the hammer stroke delivered on the nose of the Orel-Yelets-Kursk Salient. Smashed for the winter was the threat it offered to Moscow's communications with the coal of the Donets basin and the troops that defended it. The Soviet cavalry was harassing the Germans in retreat...
Ships. Most shipbuilders had been working five and six days a week. Five days after the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor the Navy ordered all Naval shipbuilders on a full-time basis. This means maximum use of full shifts and overtime work, and a 20 to 40% boost in production. The Navy now expects that most of its two-ocean Fleet will be in the water by Christmas 1944-two years ahead of schedule...
...boost pulp supplies WPA is mangling 25,000,000 folders of World War I draft records, baling the shreds...
...hundred-yard distance swimming is weak, according to Coach Vaughan. While Nate Davis is forging ahead, the addition of experienced Joe Fitzpatrick, who may yet come out, would be a boost to the squad...
Hemmed in by reporters and photographers, John P. Marquand '15, yesterday presented the motion picture script of his best-selling novel, "H. M. Pulham, Esq." to the Widener Library Theatre Collection. The presentation was part of a publicity scheme intended to boost ticket sales of the M.G.M. picture, which opens in Boston tonight...