Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyed the famed Gainsborough painting of the Bard's bust being leaned on by Actor David Garrick. In Chicago, Music Boss James Caesar Petrillo declared that Maurice Evans' Hamlet with incidental music was not a drama but a musical (and thus the incidental musicians got a pay boost...
...maelstrom. Taken in by slick Chungking double-talk of a new freedom for China, the United States has actively supported the Kuomintang government not only in hopes of destroying feudalism in China, but also of checking the spread of Communist influence in Asia. In its zeal, however, to boost China into the twentieth century, the United States has mislaid the basic principles of democracy and stands open to the charge of using the Chinese people as pawns in a game of power politics...
...value of local currency. Only in Switzerland will the tourist escape that danger. But there he may have to face another which will have the same effect. There was gossip that Switzerland would revalue its franc, raising it from 23.40 U.S. cents to 30 cents. This would automatically boost prices to tourists nearly...
...school kids in St. Paul, Minn., had it easier than the Denver stay-at-homes; they didn't even have to listen to the radio. About 1,000 organized schoolteachers (A.F.L.) had walked out in the largest teachers' strike in U.S. history. Among their demands: a boost in salary minimums from...
...chutes and conveyors, it will be the last word in department-store merchandising. Customers will be able to park their cars in the Foley garage, make their purchases, find them in their cars when finished. But Fred Lazarus has not been satisfied to wait for the new store to boost business. Foley's sales are already running close to double the rate they were when Federated took over, and profit this year is up to nearly...