Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning, however, after a night at the governor's mansion and a stroll through the state capitol (where he played a few chords on the piano), Harry Truman called Harriman "a genius" and gave his candidacy a boost. "He has all the qualifications [for President]," said Truman. "If I were a citizen of New York State, I know who I'd be for." Harriman beamed. Asked if he would say the same thing about Illinois, Stevenson's state, Truman smiled, replied: "There are three or four good men in the state of Illinois." Then, having dealt...
...large amounts of stock. Another big worry is that unions will take over a program, make it a part of their wage bargaining. In a recent case involving California's Richfield Oil Corp., the NLRB ruled that a company-aided stock-buying program was in effect a boost in wages and thus came under collective-bargaining rules. The case is being appealed in the Federal Court, but many businessmen are skittish about starting programs under such conditions...
...groups believe in centering their efforts on the United Nations. Atlantic Union, for example, was basically an extension of Streit's proposal for a union of the Atlantic democracies, with a boost from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Far removed from the Atlantic Union Committee is another group which concentrated on work outside the U.N. Charter--the "People's World Convention." Meeting in Geneva in 1951, the embryonic convention wanted to bring together a giant world assembly composed of one unofficial delegate elected by every 1,000,000 inhabitants. The state of Tennessee actually sent two delegates, but attendance...
...snow man. But Sardinian-born Costantino Nivola, 44, has found a way to turn his vacation-time doodlings on the beaches of Long Island into one of the liveliest and most pleasant new sculptured ideas of the decade. Last week Nivola's growing reputation got another big boost. National Memorial Park, across the river from Washington in Falls Church, Va., which already boasts the late Carl Milles' 38-figure Fountain of Faith (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 27), unveiled its second major sculpture grouping: Nivola's $50,000 memorial fountain dedicated to the four World War II Army...
...subsidiary of the British-Dutch Unilever empire; after long illness; in Boston. After his rise from general manager and treasurer, quiet, publicity-shy Countway raised sales from less than $1,000,000 in 1913 to $250 million in 1944. He invented B.O. during a golf game to boost his product, Lifebuoy; presided over the debuts of Lux Toilet Soap, Rinso, Swan and Spry; in 1939 received the highest salary with bonuses ($469,713) outside Hollywood...