Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller knew that he was winning sizable blocs of New York City's normally Democratic liberals away from Democrat Averell Harriman. He also was aware that New York liberals constitutionally have no use for Vice President Richard Nixon. Day before Nixon was due in Manhattan to boost the campaign of G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Kenneth Keating and G.O.P. candidates for Congress, Rockefeller's campaign adviser, State Chairman L. Judson Morhouse, got Nixon on the phone in New England, asked him to cancel his scheduled statewide telecast from Manhattan lest he rock the Rockefeller boat...
...used for everything from grain elevators to supermarkets and churches. The buildings can be raised by 20-man crews in two or three days. A Behlen supermarket including interior costs $7 per sq. ft., about half the cost of a conventional structure. With his bigger plant, Behlen expects to boost his gross from about $16 million this year to $25 million in 1959. But he deprecates his inventive skill, feels he only applied old principles to new uses. Says he: "Any engineer can design a complicated gadget that can't be produced. What we need are more engineers with...
...They Boost Prices, Confuse Consumers...
...hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil. The struggle lasted three years and was foredoomed; faster than Congregationalist Shipherd could preach the old time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...
...Radcliffe Student Council's all-out drive to boost sales of the Radcliffe News has fallen far short of its proposed goal of 150 more subscriptions, needed to finance future issues...