Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times to the Moon. The protons keep together like a swarm of bees, and each time they circle the track, they get a boost of electrical energy that increases their speed. Round and round they go, 4,000,000 times in 1.85 seconds. After they have traveled 300,000 miles (1.25 times the distance to the moon), they are moving at almost the speed of light, and each proton carries an explosive cargo of energy...
Unemployment Relief Boost...
...jump. Last week L'Unità itself was jumping for joy. After winding up its 30th anniversary celebration, including circulation-building, mass meetings addressed by party brass and "medals of honor" for widows and children of devoted L'Unità workers, the paper got another circulation boost from the Wilma Montesi scandal (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beamed one of L'Unità's top executives: "L'Unità is absolutely the biggest Communist newspaper outside the People's Democracies...
...engine production will get a boost next year through a $1,100,000 deal between Crucible Steel Co. and the National Research Corp. For 25,000 shares of stock, the steel company has bought a half interest in National Research Corp.'s subsidiary Vacuum Metals Corp., the only cornmercial producer of high-purity metals by the vacuum melting process. Vacuum Metals will expand production 500% to more than 100 tons of metal a month for navigation instrument bearings and turbine blades...
...Student Council is tinkering with its elections system again. In the past there has been complaints that cliques of undergraduates have been taking advantage of the present system to boost into a Council position some friends of theirs who was completely unknown to the rest of the College into a Council position. Often a man could win with votes from only one House. This saddled the Council with candidates of cliques, and students more acceptable to the wider undergraduate body lost...