Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone did not know the makeup of the train, it was not the fault of Engineer Taft. He had put it together in the yards of the 80th Congress, where virtually every piece of major legislation had been given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had declared his stand. Some of his views (his opposition to David Lilienthal, to universal military training, to the State Department's Voice of America) had brought a storm of criticism. Other views (on the labor act, on tax-cutting) had won him both praise and condemnation. But nobody...
...Texas & Pacific Railway Co. last week tried out a scheme to boost passenger travel. It permitted travelers to buy tickets on the installment plan. In so doing, the small (1,874-mile) Texas & Pacific scored a beat over 50 major U.S. railroads; they plan to start installment travel this fall...
Retaliation. In Palermo, Sicily, street cleaners who were denied a wage boost toured the town redistributing the garbage they had collected the day before...
Oklahoma had passed a law abolishing the 1,500 one-room schoolhouses in the state. The law was designed to cut Oklahoma's school bill and boost its educational standards, but Waterloo didn't see it that way. Next fall they would have to send their children to Edmond, two hours away by bus. Teacher Mary McKinney, who had lived thereabouts all her 47 years, was getting ready to move somewhere else. She was sure of one thing: "I don't want to teach in a city. City pupils are impudent...
...Methodist minister, Walter Stoke spent most of his boyhood in the Southwest (he picked cotton in Texas), was schooled in the Midwest and went to New England for his first major academic job. At N.H.U., he allowed students their first effective self-government, persuaded the state legislature to boost his university's appropriation...