Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity rugby team, bolstered by six English-trained players, began practicing this week. The six, a Welshman, a South African, and four Englishmen, figure to give the team a big boost in this year's four game schedule, according to Rob Albert, team captain...
Lefthanded Hitter Duke Snider, whose batting has fattened for years while the opposition pitched righthanders against his righthanded teammates, tried every trick in the book to boost his average. In the last game against the Giants he was faced with an unexpected surprise: the Giants' sparkling southpaw Ace Johnny Antonelli. The Duke promptly came up with a sore shoulder and sat out the game. In the next game he was right back at his hard-hitting ways...
RAILROAD v. TRUCK battle for freight business will soon be on a more even footing. The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that current truck rates on less than carload lots throughout the East and Midwest are too low and constitute "destructive competition." ICC has ordered the truckers to boost rates from 16? to 33? per 100 Ibs. to bring them closer into line with railroad charges...
COAL MINING, in a bad slump, will get a boost from Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration. FOA has ordered $150 million (10 million tons) worth of soft coal from U.S. mines to be shipped abroad as part of the foreign-aid program. But the chronically ailing coal operators consider this a mere aspirin tablet-only one week's work for the industry that already has an inventory of 80 million tons above ground...
...necessity, such a program amounts to price supports for part of the U.S. mining industry. This year, for example, U.S. producers of lead and zinc were in such serious trouble that they wanted higher tariffs to protect themselves from cheaper foreign metals. President Eisenhower last month rejected the tariff boost, but instead he almost doubled the rate of stockpile buying. In fiscal 1955 stockpiling lead and zinc will cost the U.S. close to $250 million. Furthermore, some $400 million of 1955's $900 million outlay is to be used to reimburse the armed forces for the supply...