Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor leader of note to go on record with a resounding good word for the late Senator from Wisconsin. But never had Gray dissented with such devastating effect as he did in urging a labor-sponsored wage freeze just as labor leaders were getting ready for a big wage-boost offensive...
...Faculty Committee on Athletics voted last night to officially approve the resolution passed last week by the Undergraduate Athletic Council to elevate squash and tennis to the status of major sports. When informed of the news, Jack Barnaby, coach of both teams, stated, "This will certainly be a big boost to the teams. The boys of the last ten years or so have worked hard and earned this distinction...
...Batista unwittingly gave Castro his biggest boost: a brutal counter-terrorism campaign that drove thousands of Cubans from neutrality to opposition. Irresponsible police thugs in Havana blunderingly murdered Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, a respected, nonviolent leader of the anti-Batista Orthodox Party ("About like killing Lyndon Johnson," say the rebels). A 15-year-old boy, suspected of bomb tossing, was castrated in Santiago and shipped home dead to his mother. When Rebel Frank Pais, a young schoolteacher, was shot by cops in Santiago, 80,000 Cubans marched to his funeral and closed down the town for seven days with a general...
...will be airlines' answer to CAB's request for cut in North Atlantic fares. New service would trim U.S.-to-Europe fares by 20%, but offer only sandwich-and-coffee meals, have 34 inches between seats v. 43 inches on tourist flights. Airlines at same time would boost tourist and first-class fares by about 9%, set London-New York rates of thrift class at $252; tourist $315 (up from $290), first class $435 (up from $400). But CAB frowns on "austerity service" and higher rates, may veto plan...
...Tobacco Co., where he became Eastern sales manager in 1938. After four years in the Navy during World War II, he went to Columbia University with the idea of becoming a history professor, instead joined Benson & Hedges as vice president under his father, whose company controlled Benson & Hedges, helped boost sales of Parliaments from 100 million yearly in 1946 to 2.2 billion in 1954. On Cullman's recommendation, Philip Morris invested $3,000,000 in packaging equipment to put Marlboro in the flip-top box, saw Marlboro quickly flip into the top ten brands...