Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain sent its top soldier, General Sir Gerald Templer, to Jordan with a tempting proposition: if Jordan would join the Baghdad pact, with Turkey. Pakistan, Iran and Iraq. Britain would boost its aid program (currently $24 million a year), replace the present Anglo-Jordanian treaty with a new one more favorable to Jordan, and increase the size and armored strength of Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion, whose 20,000 men are the best Arab troops in the Middle East...
...offing. A presidential fact-finding committee has recommended a 16½? hourly package increase for 750,000 nonoperating employees (their present average hourly pay: $1.78). To offset rising wage and material costs, U.S. railroads will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to okay a 7% freight-rate boost...
...prospect of a hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets lost on the West Side of Chicago and does not bother to go looking for himself. The script, mild enough in comparison with Nelson...
Kissing under the mistletoe will get a boost this year as decoraters will have to use this more stimulating plant instead of holly...
...about 43,300. But the big seller is the Rambler. Sales jumped 161% to 87,600 cars. One good sign that it is fast catching on is its average resale price, which topped the other low-priced cars all last spring and summer. Next year Romney hopes to boost Rambler sales to 150,000, its share of the market from this year's estimated 1.2% to about...