Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although a Penn victory would boost the Quakers into a first place tie with the Crimson, there would be no playoff. Coaches J. Bruce Munro of the Crimson and Charles Scott of Pennsylvania both said yesterday that they favored a playoff, but added that they understood that the Ivy Presidents' Agreement forbade such a game...
...keystone in its ground attack--all the more so after Oehmler was hurt--capitalized on passing, especially the latent serial talent of Walt Stahura. His in-spite-of-the-snow pitches to quarterback Joe Crehore, one of the most improved players on the team, provided at least a small boost to Harvard pride, already dampened by cold, snow, and the Yale team...
...possibility of the new library's being located at High and Wall Streets received a boost this week when C. H. Sanford, Yale Business Manager, indicated that one of the New Haven high schools bought by Yale may be used to alleviate administration building space...
...probably fall to 1,100,000, or 200,000 below the '55 level. In Manhattan, the First National City Bank, the city's leading maker of personal loans, hiked interest rates from $3.83 per $100 to $4.25, the first rise since 1937. The Chase National Bank also boosted its rates. Prices started to edge up for a growing number of basic materials-steel pipe, cement, nickel, platinum, shellac, plumbing fixtures-and increases loomed for dinnerware, pots and pans, drapes, rugs, toys, refrigerators, washing machines. Retailers, trying to hold the price line, warned that unless the pressure eases, they...
CARPET MERGER being arranged between Mohawk Carpet Mills and Alexander Smith will result in the biggest U.S. carpet firm, topping both Bigelow-Sanford and James Lees. To cut costs and boost sagging sales, the two companies will form Masco Industries on a stock exchange of four shares of Masco for each share of Mohawk, one share of Alexander Smith for each share of Masco. Combined sales: $94 million v. $68 million for Bigelow-Sanford, $62 million for James Lees...