Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ticket sales indicate a crowd of 30,000 to 35,000. However, the Cross always draws a subway alumni delegation in good weather, and this may boost gate receipts...
...Herbert Hoover. When a smoke-filled room nominated Harding for the job that summer, the College got right in step, giving the Great Gamaliel the nod over Gov. Cox by 270 votes. But the Democratic campaign at College featured a major address by Cox in the Union and a boost from President Eliot. These two factors now made the Democrats much stronger at Harvard than at other Eastern schools...
...movement that sounded like another stiff price boost in steel got started quietly last week. Blaming increases in the cost of processing, Detroit's Great Lakes Steel Corp. raised its "extra charges" (i.e., for size adjustments, heat treating, pickling, etc.) on hot-rolled sheet and strip steel by $3 to $15 a ton. Next day U.S. Steel boosted its prices on alloys, and Allegheny-Ludlum said that it would charge more for "several of our special grades...
Both Big Steel and Allegheny-Ludlum said that the bulk of their production would not be affected. But the boost in sheet and strip, which are used mainly in autos, refrigerators, washing machines and other such items, would certainly be painful to users. One bodymaker estimated that the cost of an auto made from steel bought from Great Lakes (which supplies about one-sixth of the industry's flat-rolled steel) would go up about...
...separate states can act in two ways. Legislatures can pass permissive legislation allowing cities and towns to expand their school system. Massachusetts granted this permission two years ago. And, second, the states must boost the community college plan with state funds and state facilities. Massachusetts has not gotten around to this yet; the Commonwealth boasts only four such terminal schools--in Holyoke, Newton, Northampton, and Springfield. Cambridge has 110,000 persons and plenty of tax receipts, but it has no community college, an ironical statistic for a city that compasses majestic Harvard and majestic M.I.T...