Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rowboat with a beer can. What the military leaders wanted to see was adoption of the newly released Cordiner report, a thoughtful pay-revision plan drawn up by a military-civilian advisory committee chaired by General Electric's President Ralph J. Cordiner. Disappointed with Wilson's pay-boost directive, Cordiner warned him in a letter last week that "benefits cannot be achieved by half measures which adopt the terminology but kill the substance of the recommendations." The substance...
...announcement of the arrival of the Matador squadron served a twofold purpose: 1) it provided a welcome boost in morale for Chiang's government (the English-language China News reported itself "greatly cheered" at the news), and 2) it served blunt warning to Chinese Communists on the mainland that the U.S. does not intend to let them build up jet bases on the mainland opposite Formosa without providing an effective counter-defense. Now within range of the Matador are new Red jet bases in the Shanghai-Canton-Hankow triangle and the coastal bases of Foochow, Amoy and Swatow...
JAPANESE IMPORT CRISIS is becoming so severe that foreign-exchange reserves will be exhausted in six months if importing continues at present pace. To brake imports, Bank of Japan hiked discount rate from 7.7% to 8.4%. Reacting to boost, Tokyo stock market suffered biggest drop since Korean war ended...
Brazil expects a 40% boost in tourism for the comfortably cool "winter season" in July, thanks to tourist-fare cut rates introduced by air and sea lines. Hotel and restaurant prices have risen 20% in the past year, but are still only about half the U.S. level...
...Center should give a tremendous boost to the general field of International Affairs here. Up to now, there has been no one facility for such a study. Different facets of it were covered by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Public Administration, and the different area study programs. The Russian Research Center and the International Legal Studies program of the Law School will also continue their specialized work...