Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viet Nam. Raw material producers who suffer from falling prices should not simply increase production of their rice, tin or rubber. They should boost quality, not quantity: rubber producers, for example, should strive to make their product more competitive against synthetic rubber...
...addition, left-half Chet Boulris has been practicing with the "B" squad this week, but Yovicsin emphasized that this in no way meant he had demoted his star runner. "I'm just shaking up the team to give some of the boys a boost," the coach stated. Don Gerety and Bruce McIntyre have shared the left-half post thus far this week...
Massachusetts: The 1960 presidential hopes of rich, boyish John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, got a hefty boost from the 3-1 lopsidedness of his victory over Republican Vincent Celeste...
...Pennsylvania Railroad, after paying its first dividend this year, canceled a 10% pay cut for its 633 officials earning above $10,000 yearly. The line also gave a 10% pay hike to nonunion workers making less than $10,000, plus an 8? hourly boost to all union workers...
...from the Alley. By plowing back money into research. Elox has grown from a back-alley business with sales of $194,563 in 1951 to a gross of $2,260,000 last year and earnings of $158,874. With a 90-day backlog of orders, the company expects to boost both gross and net in its current fiscal year...