Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaping population of modern Egypt. One of the most publicized projects of Premier Gamal Nasser's revolutionary government is the building of a vast water barrier at Aswan (where the Nile courses through the eastern Sahara), which will bring another 2,000,000 acres of Egypt into production, boost Egypt's power resources 10 billion kilowatt-hours. Estimated cost of Nasser's high dam: $1.5 billion...
SOFT COAL COMEBACK will bring as much as a 50?-a-ton price boost in April, the second such increase in seven months. The boost, owing to increasing demand (up 20% in 1955) and higher costs, will raise soft coal prices to where they were before the 1948 depression...
...also revising its standards for dealer sales performance, will give more weight to special problems in each dealer's territory. Beyond that, G.M. will increase the price discount given dealers on leftover stocks of cars after the annual model changeover, pay more for local dealer advertising, and boost from 30 to 90 days the time limit on returning unwanted new parts to the factory...
COLOR-TV OUTLOOK is so good that RCA is converting some of its black and white production lines to color, will boost production 500% to 120 sets an hour. Forecast: more than 200,000 RCA sets this year v. about 30,000 for the entire industry last year...
Though few U.S. firms do business with the Reds (total U.S.-Soviet bloc trade in 1955: about $5,000,000), European nations have used the liberalized embargo list to boost exports 27% in the last twelve months, while increasing imports by only...