Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Final boost of strength for the coalition was the candidacy of nimble, fast-talking Councilman Charles Shafer, who had been dropped by the Citizens Council, and had quickly switched to the other side. With Shafer leading the coalition bush-beating, the Citizens Association lost five of its eight members on the council, and the city was assured of a new kind of rule. Also assured: the eventual resignation of City Manager L. P. Cookingham, the man who gave Kansas City that clean look...
...week there were signs that Wall Street investors were beginning to tread softly because of the worrisome speculative fervor of recent weeks. The New York Stock Exchange was so concerned at the rush for low-priced stocks that it asked members to discourage uninformed speculation. Brokers themselves started to boost house margin requirements on lists of volatile stocks. Others took to the newspapers with ads warning small stockholders not to try for quick killings. The effect was like a tonic on a market that had seesawed aimlessly for nearly three weeks. At the end of a smart two-day rally...
...deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan's WNTA-TV (says he: "I speak foully in public and private too") is the latest example of a growing TV trend-conversation...
...boomed the stock of a flock of lesser companies planning Florida land developments. Universal Controls, an electronics maker, moved from 84 to 97. Both stocks have more than doubled since Jan. 1. Last week Universal announced a four-for-one stock split, plus a 10% stock dividend and a boost in the yearly cash dividend from $1 to $1.20 on the present stock. General Development leaked word of a three-for-one split, planned after the company distributes a 25% stock dividend...
...this reasoning, since the order also restricts oil from Canada, which is highly unlikely to be cut off by war. If the U.S. needs a big hoard, they argued, it should import more rather than less, keep its own oil for emergencies. They called the mandatory order, which will boost the price of oil, simply a protectionist victory for the hard-lobbying Texas independent oilmen. What worried free traders everywhere was whether the quotas would open the door to new protectionism for other industries, under the guise of "national security...