Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autos and construction, steel output was scheduled at 85.4% of capacity, best since 1953, and demand was so great that a mild grey market developed for some steel products. In the lead and zinc markets, buying was heavy as manufacturers hedged against price rises that might follow the recent boost in copper...
COFFEE PRICES will come down for U.S. consumers as a result of Brazil's devaluation of its coffee dollar. To boost lagging coffee exports, Brazil has cut the dollar-cruzeiro exchange rate to exporters 15%, thus chopping the minimum export rate for Brazilian coffee from...
...proof of that fact, private U.S. investment in Latin America already totals $7 billion. But to give a modest 2% annual boost to its low standard of living, Latin America needs $7.25 billion a year in new investment, v. the $5.9 billion now being generated from all sources. Even if Latin American capital could be tapped more effectively, another $1 billion annually will be needed from abroad...
Slum rehabilitation would give the current construction boom such a powerful boost that it would virtually guarantee a high level of building for decades. The Housing and Home Finance Agency estimates that the federal and municipal governments' share in the cost of slum clearance and urban rehabilitation would run at least to $24 billion. And for every $1 spent from public funds, HHFA estimates that private enterprise would spend $4 to $5. All told, 20 million urban dwellings need to be replaced or rehabilitated. Over a 20-year spread, the bill for public and private spending could reach...
...renamed "root beer" to wean upstate Pennsylvania coal miners away from beer, and became, for a time, the biggest-selling U.S. soft drink.) Young Peter Hires left Haverford College before graduation to drive a company truck, became a salesman, and rose to be general merchandising manager. He expects to boost 1954 sales of nearly $10 million by 20% by being "a lot more aggressive." ¶ Edward H. Weitzen. 35, was elected president of Cincinnati's Gruen Watch Co., succeeding Morris Edwards, who resigned. A graduate of City College of New York ('38), Weitzen worked for a Manhattan...