Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arbor, twinkle-toed Tom Harmon, most spectacular broken-field runner since Red Grange, staged a one-man show, rolled up 21 points for Michigan (three touchdowns, three conversions)-enough to beat Michigan State, 21-to-14, and boost the Wolverines' prestige as favorite to win the Big Nine (Big Ten before Chicago counted herself out) championship...
...output of the U. S. wood-pulp industry practically equaled U. S. consumption. Production this year, said he, should hit a record 9,000,000 tons, up 27% from 1939's 7,107,000 tons. Furthermore, if U. S. pulpsters bring old, inefficient plants into action, they can boost production another...
...When the price stays above the legal 20? for a reasonable period (two or three weeks) R. R. C. may invoke its contract with the Dutch-British rubber cartel, International Rubber Regulations Committee, which controls 97% of the world supply. I. R. R. C. will then be obliged to boost its quotas to the U. S., send the price down to where R. R. C. can enter the market again. This week, unscared R. R. C. announced that it would buy another 180,000 tons of rubber next year...
...give Benny and Don a break . . . and judge them five years from now. Those kids have something inside them that clicks with me and I'm determined to find out what it is and give them a boost...
Originally a publicity stunt to boost Hermosa Beach, California's Ironing Board Derby-said to be the world's longest aquaplane race-is sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association