Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Association of School Administrators. His hard-headed administrative outlook: "Let's have glorious ideals for education, but let's use horse sense in achieving them." Typical of his horse sense was the time when, as a school superintendent, he was called by the mayor, who wanted to boost somebody for a job. Hill wasn't annoyed. Says he: "I wouldn't want to employ anybody who had no friends at all, even if he were reduced to only the mayor...
Dali was readying for publication a handbook to be called 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship. Meanwhile he gave the unfinished Leda a surrealist boost in the Dali News-a newspaper by and about himself, which he published for his exhibition. Wrote Dali...
...does not intend to pass the boost in crude prices on to consumers (normally a 50? increase would raise gasoline prices 2?) unless "other companies raise their prices." Jersey Standard's Eugene Holman said he did not favor price increases "at the present time." But the chances looked pretty good that many other companies would raise both crude and product prices even though industry profits are running 67% better than last year. Any such increase would step up pressure for price control and rationing of oil products...
...famed assaults on Tinian and Iwo Jima. Military experts have since described the Tinian assault as "the perfect amphibious operation." To get ready for it, Cates personally did aerial reconnaissance over the island. Once ashore, he visited the front lines almost daily to study terrain and boost morale, often alarming his staff by the risks he took. His credo: "If the men know who their commander is, it makes a lot of difference...
Then the I.T.U. gave the six daily papers, the Tribune, Sun, Journal of Commerce, Times, Herald-American and News, an ultimatum: boost wages from $85.50 to $100, within the day. The publishers said no. Said I.T.U. President Woodruff Randolph: The only thing left was a "nice clean strike...