Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest in the fine arts by organizing 2,585 programs on campuses across the U.S. It has sponsored lectures by distinguished foreigners, has set up teacher retirement and annuity programs at scores of colleges. It has made sweeping studies of Christian education, has helped organize 26 state foundations to boost corporate giving. In 1943 it anticipated the famed Harvard Report by calling for a "core" of required liberal arts courses in the first two years of college...
...Texas is also dropping steadily, an undercurrent of McCarthyism continues to swell. Two weeks ago, State Secretary Ben Shepard revoked the organizing privileges of three independent unions, claiming they were Communist controlled. His charges have not been proven, and it is generally felt that they are designed to boost his chances for a gubernatorial nomination. Experts feel that McCarthy himself is popular enough in Texas to win almost anything except a presidential race. Indeed, any Republican would lose. It looks as if Texas will be back in the Democratic fold come...
Then, as if to indicate that he might well settle for less, Figueres listed another set of proposals he had made to United Fruit's chairman. Here he got much more specific: pending future sale of its Costa Rican assets, the company should now 1) accept a boost in its corporation tax from 15% to 50%, 2) forgo its tariff exemptions and pay the regular 25% duty on its stores and equipment imports...
...year's end, the same uncertainty hung in the air as at the beginning. Because of this, the businessmen in Washington were arming against a possible letdown. They have a housing program designed to keep building above the 1,000,000 units-a-year level, plans to boost the minimum wage and to provide increased unemployment insurance benefits, along with a $15 billion public-works program ready...
...provides a well-padded corporate cushion against a sales drop. Sales of General Motors, for example, could drop as much as 37% in 1954, and the automaker would still end up with net profits as good as in 1953. General Electric, even with some drop in sales, could boost its earnings to $7.50 a share this year v. an estimated $5.50 in 1953. (In anticipation, traders have pushed G.E.'s stock up 20 points to $87 in the past six months...