Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boost in tuition charges in private colleges to meet the full cost of education would be "ill-considered," Robert F. Goheen, president of Princeton University, declared in his 1958 annual report...
Payrolls were growing fatter because basic industries continued to pick up: boost output to 141,072 cars, 20% above the week before and 13% higher than any week in 1958.
...shortest working week"-but at some unspecified future time. It promises that there will be butter for every Russian table, while "flights to celestial and cosmic bodies" will also be carried out. It targets an overall rise of 80% in industrial output by 1965, and a 62%-63% boost in national income. Thus the emphasis will again be on heavy industry-an old story to Russian workers living in overcrowded squalor. They have to be inspired somehow to renewed effort. Khrushchev's recipe is pride, optimism, promises...
...turn out 210,000 cars in 1958, v. 170,000 in 1957, while the industry as a whole will top the 1,000,000 mark for a 100% increase in the last four years. Biggest jump of all: West Germany, which made 958,967 cars in 1957, will boost production to 1,500,000 units...
Commodity prices also rose during the week (the Dow-Jones spot index was up 2.40 points to 160.08, futures up 2.03 to 154.55) on the belief that Congress will boost support prices, causing an increase in overall agricultural prices. But, said Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's Commodity Expert Harry B. Anderson: "Last week's rise in commodity indices is only flash-in-the-pan buying. With most grains and raw materials in oversupply, inflationary pressures are not very realistic and will be difficult to sustain...