Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...druggists' shelves. The Liggett chain (118 stores) may sell 400 Ibs. a month; after the LHJ fable, sales zoomed to 800 Ibs. a day. Other chains across the country reported the same sort of boom. And because the plain formula tastes so flat, there was a corresponding boost in sales of peppermint, vanilla and coffee and other flavoring extracts...
Rather than tie up his ships by a prolonged court battle, Niarchos settled the case out of court, paid an initial fine of $4,000,000. To recover 13 of his ships, he later made a deal with the Government that gave U.S. shipyards a needed boost. In return for permission to transfer the repossessed ships to foreign flags, Niarchos paid an additional $8,579,500 in penalties and agreed to build and register three supertankers (two of 32,650 tons and one 46,000-tonner...
...recent months, is now running at the annual rate of 1,100,000 starts, off 200,000 from last year. So far, builders are not too worried; the trend to bigger, more expensive houses has helped maintain a high dollar volume. Nevertheless, the decline has given a big boost to a little-known idea: trade-in housing. Detroit Builder-Broker Gordon Williamson, who used to sell cars in the '20s, says that real-estate dealers are today at the point where auto dealers found themselves 30 years ago; they are going to have to handle trade-in houses...
NORTHWEST POWER partnership will get big boost this fall with start of $200 million Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River. Last obstacle was removed when Puget Sound Power & Light Co. agreed to sell its share of another Columbia River plant to Chelan County Public Utility District in return for half of power from new Rocky Reach Dam. FPC has given Chelan County PUD license to start building 630,000-kw. project as soon as possible...
MOSCOW FAIR FOR U.S. industry and agriculture next summer is latest Soviet overture to boost East-West trade. Reds want American businessmen to display industrial machines, agricultural products, fashions and fabrics. Reds say they will also set aside $15 million to buy goods of "outstanding quality" right off display stands...