Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, Secretary Marion Folsom suggested that a $79 million grant be given the National Science Foundation, which now carries on many of the kinds of programs HEW hopes to foster. Thus, HEW itself would be left with only $145 million the first year to give U.S. education the boost it so badly needs...
...model of enlightened management. It put in a profit-sharing plan, and was the first French company to give all workers a paid three-week vacation. In 1955 Renault routed the Communists for good by signing a contract with non-Communist unions calling for an automatic 4% wage boost every year...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--The Rockefeller studies group said tonight the United States must boost defense spending by about three billion dollars each year for the next several years if it wants to halt a "rapidly" deteriorating position in the military race with Russia...
...rated capacity before June, but the industry expects a 5% to 10% rise from then on, expects to turn out 105 million to 115 million tons for the year as a whole. Construction value will probably increase 5% to a record $49.6 billion, including a hefty 8% boost in housing due largely to easier credit...
...start, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy intends to boost defense spending at least $1 billion in the first six months. For fiscal 1959, there will probably be another boost of at least $2 billion (to $41 billion for actual defense spending), plus a $5 billion boost in the obligational authority for future defense contracts. The Administration hopes to hold down the totals by cutting such items as the farm program and aid to veterans, but few politicos think it will be successful. If anything, spending on the farm program-a huge $5 billion in 1957-may rise in 1958 to keep...