Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well-deserved, in fact, is Sponsor Albert Jay Nock's boost: "A worthy, unusual and original contribution to American letters." Samples...
Another of Göring's men last week got a boost in power and prestige. Hitler named Major General Dr. Fritz Todt (rhymes with butt) Minister for Arms & Munitions, gave him the immediate job of speeding up production of armaments...
Sponsor of the 500 meetings was the Foreign Missions Conference of North America (representing 129 Protestant bodies with 30,000,000 adherents). Purpose of the meetings: to boost foreign missions. First step: to call foreign missions "Christian Foreign Service." The hour-and-a-half broadcast, carried on three networks and numerous short-wave stations, gave Christian Foreign Service the widest hearing it had ever had. Next: a campaign for funds...
...Finnish loan-nor Chinese needs for the road-builders, trucks and other U. S. goods (exclusive of implements of war) which China will buy with it. What made it big was the tremendous leverage that U. S. currency exerts in terms of Far Eastern money, the tremendous boost that 20,000,000 hard U. S. dollars (worth $140,000,000 soft Chinese) give to the Chinese economic system, which for four years has been besieged in a currency war almost as economically devastating as the Japanese invasion has been in terms of human suffering...
...discussion with a group of friends last night, Arthur S. Harris, Jr. '43, instigator of the bureau, admitted that his sole aim in starting the idea was to use the publicity to boost himself for president of his class...