Word: boosted
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Construction on the Pan American Highway to Panama, which has been sputtering along on a lean budget, got a high-octane boost last week. On the recommendation of Vice President Nixon, who toured Central America in February, President Eisenhower asked Congress to accelerate the U.S. contribution for completing the 3,200-mile Laredo-to-Panama road. Earlier, the President had budgeted $5,750,000 for the highway for the next fiscal year; now he wants $75 million for the next three years. Matched by half that sum from Central American countries, the stepped-up appropriation would be enough, Ike thought...
...contract, Avery recognized the Teamsters as bargaining agent for Ward's 15,000 warehousemen (not affected are some 37,000 clerks and retail employees). Further, he agreed to boost the warehousemen's wages 3? to 5? an hour. In addition, the contract calls for a maintenance-of-membership arrangement, sets up grievance machinery and formalizes current vacation benefits. Calling off the strike threat, Dave Beck announced that the union would cast its proxies for Avery...
...spent the past ten years cramming democracy down the throats of the Japanese with a G.I. boot, and have succeeded so well that they have mustered a 75.8% vote in the recent election. We should invite a Japanese democratization commission to the U.S. to teach us how we can boost our turnout from the puny 63% we mustered in the 1952 election...
...worldwide effort to win friends and influence people for freedom, a major obstacle is the U.S. agricultural surplus. The total value of that surplus now stands at more than $7 billion. It is rising so fast that the Agriculture Department last week was getting ready to ask Congress to boost the borrowing authority of the Commodity Credit Corp. from $10 billion to $12 billion. This mountain of food has caused the U.S. to impose strict import quotas on agricultural commodities, a policy which is not only condemned by foreign nations, but is opposed by the U.S. itself when other nations...
When President Eisenhower approved a boost of up to 50% in tariffs on Swiss watches last summer, he gave a reason that even the most ardent low-tariff men found hard to attack. The Office of Defense Mobilization, said Ike, had found from an interdepartmental report that "preservation of the unique skills of this industry [in the U.S.] is essential to the national security." Last week, after months of prodding by U.S. watch importers, the Defense Department released a report of its own that took a position quite different from that...