Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan this week, the Ford Foundation announced one of the largest single private grants to higher education in U.S. history: $50 million to help selected privately run colleges and universities boost faculty salaries. Recipients of the Ford grants (still unnamed) will be asked to supplement the gifts with funds raised from other sources...
With these words in New Orleans last week, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the President's special emissary to Latin America in 1953, set the keynote for a new kind of economic conference. Its purpose: to boost future U.S. investment in Latin America through a partnership of businessmen instead of governments. The first Inter-American Investment Conference achieved a notable goal: in many a deal North Americans tentatively agreed to furnish capital for Latin America...
Sponsored by the city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., the idea got its first big boost after last year's Rio Conference where Latin American hopes for U.S. Government loans so greatly overshadowed private economic cooperation that little was accomplished. But in New Orleans, under the spur of Shipping Tycoon (Mississippi Shipping Co.) Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of the city's trade-minded International House, private businessmen were eager to carry the ball. The Latin American delegations came prepared with a 50-page prospectus of more than 300 specific projects in their home countries to show...
...Mike Buchanan, who has reportedly played in three try-out games with the Chicago Blackhawks, teams with his twin brother Neil to boost the Michigan defense, while the sextet's offense is paced by Captain Bill MacFarlane and wing Tom Rendall...
...base for the new enthusiasm and optimism of cement men is President Eisenhower's proposal for a $101 billion, ten-year state and federal highway program. It is the biggest reason why they are ordering enough rock-crushers, conveyor belts, tube mills, rotary kilns and other equipment to boost the industry's capacity by about 30% in the next five years...