Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathering hue and cry proclaims that the academic professionals have been subsidizing undergraduates for half a century. Although this theory has received its latest boost from Devereux Josephs' Committee on Education beyond High School, its inventor and leading local proponent is Seymour Harris, who should know better...
...heavy iproniazid dosage, but refuses to cut down because he would rather suffer these than risk a recurrence of the depression that has handicapped him for twelve years and sometimes crippled him. Dr. Kline, though conceding no symptoms in himself, admitted that he had taken the drug to boost his efficiency when his work load was heavy...
Last week, on a rare note of bewilderment, Eugene Cervi confessed on Page One that the Rocky Mountain Journal's antitax campaign had received a mountainous boost; to his office had come a letter from an anonymous "admirer" urging continued efforts to "stop big Nick in his tax campaign." Enclosed: a $1,000 bill, with the suggestion: "If you can't go along with my idea, then turn the money over to your favorite charity...
...RATE-BOOST CAMPAIGNS by airlines are winning more support in CAB, which turned down lines-urgent pleas for 6% raise last summer. CAB voted to allow Continental Air Lines, which was not a party to last summer's request, to raise fares by 7% to 10% on some Western short hops...
...railroaders cite impressive statistics. The Southern Pacific says it spends 57? for every 48? of revenue from its 14,200 San Francisco commuters. The Illinois Central has netted a profit on its $42 million Chicago commuter facilities only twice since 1947. The I.C. says it needs a 55% fare boost just to get a 2.1% return. Its estimated $955,000 loss on the service this year will still be the lowest of any Chicago commuter line; Rock Island alone will drop $1,500,000. In Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania rings up a yearly $4,000,000 commuter deficit, which a requested...