Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inflation curbs" top listing on his agenda, several Congressmen have declared their intent to introduce tax reduction measures as soon as Congress assembles. It is generally conceded that any overall tax reduction would release more money to be spent in an already inflated market, and thus give prices another boost...
Monday's nocturnal scrimmage, the first contact work in practice since the season officially opened, proved a tremendous boost to morale yesterday as the Varsity began pointing for Rutgers' rapid eleven this weekend...
...Boost income taxes for farmers...
...highest trade-in allowances on used cars, and thus, in effect, cut their K-F prices to stimulate sales. But neither Henry Kaiser nor his smart son Edgar was worried. They hope to turn out another 44,000 cars this year and are spending $3,000,000 to boost engine production. They hope to bring K-F's output by early summer to around 30,000 a month...
These are by no means normal, peacetime figures. In 1939-40, for example, total expenses were about ten million dollars, with total income approximately the same. While expenses have increased evenly up and down the long list, the income boost has been provided primarily by a huge jump in tuition. This has resulted from the overall increased enrollment, and from hiked-up tuition fees in some parts of the University, such as the Business School. The effect on University balance sheets of a return to prewar enrollments--and the consequent reduction of income--in the fact of postwar economic conditions...