Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predicted, its spending total set a new peacetime record. The new mark: $73.9 billion, or $2.4 billion more than Ike's 1958 record-setter as it emerged, nicked and scratched, from last spring's clamorous Battle of the Budget. Reason for the $2.4 billion boost: upped defense spending...
...faces rugged competition from other labor chiefs, e.g., the Teamsters' tough Jimmy Hoffa, tarred by scandal and scarred by his union's expulsion from the A.F.L.-C.I.O., is out to prove to the boys that he is still their resolute leader by squeezing a whacking wage boost out of trucking firms this spring...
Some Air Force and Navy interceptor planes are already using air-to-air guided missiles (with electronic or infra-red detection) to boost their chances of a hit, e.g., the Air Force's three types of the Hughes Falcon and the Navy's Sidewinder, but such missiles must make a direct hit to kill, can be deflected by enemy countermeasures. Most promising experimental Air Force air-to-air missile: the Douglas Genie, a non-guided atomic missile that can kill at near-miss range of half a mile or more by the brute force of its explosion. Genie...
...encourage the market. Department-store sales were still running at a record pace. Higher military spending and more rapid contract-letting promised to spur defense industries, while relaxed credit requirements for FHA home buyers (see Housing) promised to give the housing industry, already on the upgrade, another boost...
STEEPER AIR FARES are almost assured for 1958. CAB's problem is when and how to grant raise without raising ire of Congressmen who opposed boost. Majority of board is convinced that present rate scale, little changed in ten years, cannot support lines...