Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visiting Manhattan last week to boost the National Fund for Medical Education, President Eisenhower took time as well to boost an old friend. Summoned to Ike's Waldorf-Astoria suite for 15 minutes of pleasantries and pictures was Robert Keaton Christenberry, 58, Republican candidate for mayor of New York in next week's election. Christenberry has had rough going battling the entrenched solidity of Incumbent Democrat Robert F. (for Ferdinand) Wagner Jr., who has served one four-year term, wants a second, has a good chance in Democratic New York City of getting what he wants. Candidate Christenberry...
Ignoring the raging cold war over Syria, hard-driving Premier Adnan Menderes of the ruling Democrats campaigned to boost his 441-82 majority on a slogan of "A School, a Road, a Faucet, and a Mosque for Every Village." Menderes obviously had a fat war chest. Having barred all opposition speeches from the air, the wily little Premier ordered 100,000 dry-cell batteries flown in from Europe and passed out free to rural villages so that he could be sure farmers would receive his election harangues loud and clear on their battery-driven sets. Pointing to the new factories...
...value of goods and services produced per capita in 1955 was $187, v. $2,343 in the U.S. Even to increase the per capita gross national product to the present U.S. level by 1980−when Mexico's population will have doubled−Mexico would have to boost national output 2,500% (to $156 billion) and invest the astronomical sum of some $400 billion in capital. In Burma the same goal would take an 8,900% boost in G.N.P...
...worth of 1958 models. Hertz will buy (for cash) 19,737 autos, three-quarters of them from General Motors, also plans to buy another 11,000 after April 1 for $33.5 million more. To swing deal, Hertz will sell 15,000 of its 1957 cars for around $35 million, boost its revolving bank credit from $50 million to $65 million...
DRESS PRICES will climb 7% in mid-December, when International Ladies Garment Workers Union gets 5½ % cost-of-living raise, first pay boost in four years. Average pay will jump from $2.73 to $2.88 an hour...