Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WORLDWIDE INFLATION is cutting into the $8.9 billion International Monetary Fund, which makes loans to bolster shaky currencies. With demand rising for IMF credit, Fund Boss Per Jacobsson wants to put bite on IMF's member nations to boost their contributions 30% to 35%. If raise is okayed, U.S. will have to add $1 billion to its quota of 2.75 billion...
Even an established importer, Sinclair Oil Corp., asked for relief, demanded a quota boost from 62,200 bbl. daily to 74,800. At a hearing before Captain Carson, Sinclair President J. E. Dyer challenged the program's premise that cheap foreign oil is endangering the nation's security by cutting down oil exploration. Despite accelerated exploration in recent years, he said, the nation's reserves are not increasing fast enough. "To disrupt and impair our sources of supply abroad and jeopardize relationships of industry that have been built up with foreign nations over a long period...
...stations (top price: $50 weekly). Now Miller has filmed his first TV keyhole show (which he hopes to sell to WXEX in Richmond, Va.), and will sign a syndication contract with Intermountain Network, Inc., which will add its 57 Western stations to his string in October and, he hopes, boost his total income from $50,000 to $75,000 a year...
...babies was its crash program to mass-produce titanium, the "wonder metal'' that is lighter than steel and tougher than aluminum. To get the metal for supersonic planes, the U.S. gave out some $215 million in federal loans, stockpile-buying contracts and research grants that helped boost production of titanium sponge from 75 tons in 1950 to 14,000 tons last year. More than 90% of the 1957 output was bought by the Government. But last week the Government and producers alike were willing to concede that titanium had fallen short of everyone's high hopes...
LEAD, ZINC TARIFF will probably jump 100% to 200% soon to give depressed domestic producers a boost. With U.S. prices down to 14? per lb. for lead and 10? for zinc, Tariff Commission is expected to recommend doubling lead duty to 2.55?, tripling zinc tariff...