Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although efforts to boost Dudley are continually hampered by the loss of men, the leaders who have chosen to remain are not relaxing campaigns to improve the Center's stature. A student who moved out this year, in fact, has suggested that "without the twenty top men over there the place would fall apart." Undoubtedly, the task of improvement within Dudley is not an easy one. Much of the difficulty is coordinating the activities of almost 300 men who must divide their time among home, classes, and the Center...
...present tendency toward larger families continues as predicted, 48 million children will be of school age (5 to 17) by 1965, one-third more than this year's total. Merely to provide them with 1954-style facilities will boost annual school expenses from around $10 billion to at least $13.5 billion...
OVERSEAS OIL investment will soon get a big boost from Shell Oil Co. and Standard Oil of California. Shell, in association with Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., will spend $40 million to build Ceylon's first oil refinery, turn out 1,200,000 tons of gasoline and other products annually. Standard will do the same for Hawaii by building the islands' first major refinery at a cost of $30 million, including facilities to refine 30,000 bbls. of oil daily, enough to take care of most of Hawaii's retail needs...
Yale hopes the changes will boost morale during the usual mid-winter doldrums and cut down on the number of infirmary cases, besides eliminating from the schedule an unproductive post-Christmas, pre-examination period...
...walkout against five of the city's biggest department stores (Kaufmann's, Home's, Frank & Seder's, Gimbels, Rosenbaum's) after 52 weeks of picketing and violence. Under the terms of a three-year contract, the stores agreed to an overall 8½? wage boost (to $2.21 an hour for drivers, $1.94 for helpers) plus some fringe benefits. In return the Teamsters gave up a pair of choice featherbedding privileges: for the first time in eighteen years, the stores can use parcel post to deliver packages of 8 oz. or less, and management...