Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth so steep that there can be no hope of abating the general misery for years. Though he merged Syria in his United Arab Republic with glowing promises of prosperity in Arab brotherhood, the first consequences for Syrians were a decline in the value of their money, a stiff boost in tariffs, and destruction of their remaining political freedoms...
...livestock products took in $9.1 billion in the first half of this year for what actually was a smaller quantity of meat, poultry and dairy products than they sent to market in January-June 1957. Even the surplus-ridden wheat, cotton, corn and other crop producers managed to boost sales by 10% to $4.7 billion. In some states the increase in farmers' cash receipts was nearly 100%. Texas farmers, from January through May, took in $704 million v. $489 million in 1957. Nebraska cash receipts jumped from $339 million to $479 million, and Kansas' from $212 million...
...dangers of bureaucratic interference with science, leading to loss of freedom by scientists and universities, and of bureaucratic lassitude." But the committee warned that NIH should not go on expanding research inside its own walls, which now house 6,700 employees, including 900 M.D.s and Ph.D.s. Instead, it should boost its support to outside institutions...
...Doctor an Hour? But before anybody can boost research to rocket speeds, the committee pointed out, the U.S. must more than double the number of people engaged in it-from 20,000 to 45,000. And this means not only more technicians but more physicians, whose training is long, costly and difficult. The U.S. must train 8,900 new M.D.s every year by 1970, as against 6,800 a year now-which will mean setting up 14 to 20 new medical schools. Personnel is already in hen's-teeth supply, causing barefaced piracy. Merck's Connor quoted...
...retailers of cutting prices. What cutting they have done has usually been in the form of special discounts or temporary reductions. On the other hand, some industries that a few months ago talked loudly about raising prices have suddenly turned mum. The aluminum makers, who once discussed a boost as of Aug. i, when they must automatically raise wages, last week said they had not made up their minds what to do. At week's end, steelmakers still could not decide about their prices. One small steel firm knew what it had to do. The Alan Wood Steel...