Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, v. 3% to 5% for the prosperous big-city papers-and few of the big-city papers are truly prosperous. They also compete less fiercely for advertising than most metropolitan dailies, which not only charge lower line rates but must pay far more to boost out-of-city circulation. Says a Chicago metropolitan newspaper executive: "Anybody who's looking for a newspaper with a future ought to look in the middle-sized cities. Most big papers today are nothing but big trouble...
...particularly heartening to see that free enterprise is getting a healthy boost from such places as West Germany, through their able Ludwig Erhard and through the International Industrial Development Conference...
West Germany's durable Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, remarkably unaware that he could slow down at 81, said he will fly down to Rio for a visit next year, at Brazil's invitation, to boost economic and cultural ties...
...payments start pouring in. From October through February, Treasury income is at its lowest point, while expenditures continue at their high level. In fiscal 1957, for example, the U.S. Government collected $24.4 billion from October through February, but spent $29.2 billion. Realizing its predicament, the Treasury got Congress to boost the debt limit temporarily to $278 billion until income picked up again. Early this year the Treasury thought it could get by, asked for no increase. But since then, estimated expenditures have gone up, while income may well decrease as a result of the business decline...
...make the railroads' financial position worse, railway workers last fortnight got a 12? hourly wage increase. The boost will cost rails some $300 million in the next year. To pay their higher bills, railroads last week were getting ready to request their 15th freight-rate hike since World War II (total freight-rate increase since then: 107%). The Interstate Commerce Commission will look kindly upon the request. When the rails got their last rate raise in August, the ICC conceded that it was not enough, and invited them to come back for "further moderate increases." But ICC stipulated that...