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Word: boosted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College was able to predict a deficit in operating costs for the academic year 1958-59 last spring, according to Wilbur K. Jordan, Radcliffe President. However, due to the $250 rise in tuition for Radcliffe students, which took effect this year, the College delayed the boost in room and board charges...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: Annex Raises Room, Board For 1959-60 | 3/13/1959 | See Source »

Currently operating higher up the dial at 107.1 megacycles, the station will accomplish the changeover before the end of the month, according to Shenefield. At the same time, WHRB will also boost its power and increase the height of its antenna on top of Dudley Hall by 20 feet...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: WHRB Will Boost Power, Move on FM Dial to 95.3 | 3/6/1959 | See Source »

...President appeared to go out of his way at his news conference to give Herter a boost. Herter, the acting secretary, already has said he would take the job if asked...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Russia Will Give East Germany Control Over Accesses to Berlin; Eisenhower May Appoint Herter | 3/5/1959 | See Source »

...plant will rise on 750 acres of sand dunes along Indiana's Lake Michigan shore, will wedge National into the big-league Chicago market. It will process steel from National's Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, where National will add 500,000 tons of capacity, boost its total to 7,500,000 tons, only 500,000 tons behind fourth-ranking Jones & Laughlin. Counting further expansion at Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, W. Va., National will spend $300 million through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: New Peak in Steel? | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Congress is on veterans' housing, urban renewal and public housing. The Senate wants to spend an additional $150 million on direct loans to veterans; the House bill calls for $300 million. The Administration flatly opposes both, argues that a better way to help the VA program is to boost the indirect rate ceiling on VA loans, currently pegged by law at 4¾%, which is too low to get veterans mortgage money, to 5¼%, where financing is more readily available. Congress has agreed to the boost but as part of packages that include the millions for direct loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOUSING FIGHT: The U.S. Should Spend What It Can Afford | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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