Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going out to write and raise a rumpus and things," said Lieut. General James M. ("Slim Jim") Gavin, 50, Army Research and Development chief, when he announced his retirement from the service seven months ago, after losing his battle to get a healthy boost in his 1959 budget (TIME, Jan. 13). This week LIFE published the second of two installments on Gavin's quickly written 304-page book, War and Peace in the Space Age (Harper; $5), a rumpus-raising attack on his old enemies and a sharp accusation that the Army is in bad shape technologically because...
...electric violin that enables the player with a puny tone to boost it merely by twisting a couple of knobs on the belly. Says a salesman: "It might lay an egg; then again, it might be the hottest thing in the country." Price: about...
...Lloyd had earlier agreed upon: the British accented the mutual willingness to talk; the U.S. emphasized the qualifications. Britain's answer, phrased with the terse and straightforward authority of Macmillan's personal voice, overnight united all British parties behind the government and gave it such a popular boost that some gloating Tories began talking of a snap national election to cash in ("We are riding the crest of the wave"). But Macmillan, who can resist popular outcries if he thinks them wrong (as in his refusal to suspend nuclear tests), showed not the slightest sign of approaching...
FOREIGN-CAR BOOM will boost Volkswagen production in West Germany from 470,000 cars last year to 630,000 in 1959. Waiting list for new VWs is five to six months long in Germany, four to 14 months...
Nevertheless, the program's staunchest boosters are the companies working under its umbrella. Boston's Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., which bought the first policy in 1948 on its British carbon-black plant, points out that an insured company gets a big boost in its credit rating. General Mills, after insuring a bean-processing setup in Pakistan, was so sold on the insurance that it made plans to insure all new foreign investments, "though we hope never to have to collect...