Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reporter Smith pocketed the guest list, copied from place cards, Mobster Giancana grumbled volubly on. He had a sneer for congressional investigating committees ("They couldn't catch me for a year; I like to hide from them"), a boost for syndicated crime ("What's wrong with the syndicate? Two or three of us get together on some deal and everybody says it's a bad thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn...
American Motors' economy claims got a boost last week in an open trial-the 1959 Mobilgas Economy Run. At the end of the five-day, 1.898-mile trip from Los Angeles to Kansas City, Mo. the honors went to a Rambler American Deluxe driven by Woody Bell, 44. The Rambler topped the 47-car field with an average 25.2878 miles per gallon; a Rambler Deluxe was second, with a 22.9572-m.p.g. average. Third place was won by a Studebaker Lark Deluxe, with 22.4422. For the first time entries were judged this year on an actual miles-per-gallon basis...
...gainer from the borrowing was Detroit, which has visions of the balmiest spring selling season in years. Ford's advance orders are so big that it will boost April production 20% to 140,000 Fords, biggest April since 1955. And despite labor troubles, Chrysler surprised everyone by announcing that it was "comfortably in the black" in the first quarter...
...prospective increase in U.S. production in the 1960s is almost as much as the combined current production of Europe's two fastest-growing industrial powers, the Soviet Union and West Germany. In 1960 the effect of increasing defense efforts plus rising capital investment will boost gross national product from $475 billion to an even $500 billion. By 1970, ten years later, U.S. production will have soared to $750 billion for the greatest growth in any decade in U.S. history. To U.S. consumers, the growth will mean $355 billion available in disposable income to spend on goods and services...
...major newspapers to make its case for an "extra billion dollars" in the pockets of 1,250,000 steelworkers. This is money, says the union, that will bring real benefits to the economy. Union Boss Dave McDonald is not so much interested in a hefty wage boost as in fringe benefits, whose cost is less evident. He is likely to emphasize pension terms, better hospitalization and medical plans, more generous unemployment benefits. But the big firecracker that is sure to set up a ringing in management's ears is a share-the-work plan to reduce the dangers...