Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grain, when in cold fact it had harvested no more than 100 million. Taking over, Nikita Khrushchev saw that the only way to expand production to feed an industrialized nation was to open vast new acreage in Siberia and offer Russia's collective farmers gaudy price incentives to boost their output. Having messed up Soviet agriculture earlier, said Khrushchev, the "reactionaries" of the anti-party group fought his every reform. "It hurts my tongue to call them comrades.'' he growled...
...hospitals, dams and roads helped keep construction growing to a record $48.8 billion. The 1957 housing slump was turned around (1,170,000 new housing starts in 1958) with the aid of beefed-up FHA, VA and Fannie May programs. Good weather and fine crops gave farmers a 20% boost in income. Finally, the defense planners who had helped accelerate recession with an ill-timed economy wave in the summer of 1957 got back on the missile beam by mid-1958 with a $5.3 billion increase in the contract awards...
American Motors' President George Romney, who has increased production six times this model year to keep up with the demand for the fast-selling Rambler (TIME, Dec. 8), last week announced another boost. Orders are coming in so fast that Rambler will increase its capacity from 330,000 to 440,000 cars annually. To complete the expansion before the 1960 model year, Romney will spend $10,150,000 on Rambler's facilities at Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis., add at least 4,500 to the present payroll of some 18,000. With sales now running at a rate...
...many industry-hungry nations dangle as bait to U.S. firms. But they do offer other advantages, topped by free convertibility. "There is no trouble here in transferring dividends,'' says the chief of Guaranty Trust Co.'s Belgian branch, Elie Delville, a pioneer in the campaign to boost Belgium to U.S. businessmen. "You can walk into this office today with Belgian francs, and without formalities buy $1,000,000 for delivery in New York...
Reason for the switchover: without TV, the college would have to hire more new teachers, instead hopes to save $60,000 in salaries by June. And with TV, Compton expects to handle a 100% enrollment increase in the next decade with a boost of only about 30% in its 90-member staff. Said one official: "We figure that saving the costs of 60 bodies is well worth it." Compton plans to build a TV wing, with six windowless, air-conditioned classrooms...