Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EASTERN AIR LINES, whose costs have been rising faster than its increase in passengers, will shoot for higher volume through more low-fare air-coach service. Starting next week, Eastern will increase coach planes from 22% to ,50% of its total flights, expects to boost the percentage...
...Carl Byoir took over the Libbey-Owens-Ford plate-glass account, he got architects to plug for more glass in houses, had a book written on glass, encouraged automen to stress the safety features of more visibility (and more glass). By increasing the overall use of glass, Byoir helped boost sales of his client...
...will have to raise a total of $10 to $12 billion in new money. Last week, with 1954's big volume of financing less than one-third completed, an old problem returned to haunt the Treasury Department. Last year, when Congress brusquely turned down an Administration request to boost the $275 billion debt limit to $290 billion, the Treasury managed to scrimp along under the old limit. Now, because of heavy tax receipts in March, the national debt is down to $271 billion. But it is expected to rise when corporate tax receipts fall sharply by year...
...Club. In Florence, Ariz., Ted O. Mullen, acting warden of the state penitentiary, resigned when his request for a $2,400 salary boost was turned down despite a petition from 500 convicts who offered to pay the increase out of their recreation fund...
After blowing a 5 to 0 lead and losing to Army Friday, 9 to 5, the varsity baseball team rebounded Saturday to whip Cornell, 10 to 3, and boost its Eastern league standing to two wins and three losses...