Word: boosted
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AIRWAY USERS' TAX will be submitted to Congress by Commerce Department, which will probably urge boost in aviation gas tax (now 2? per gal.), plus levy on now untaxed jet fuel. It will help finance CAA's six year program for air-lane control by ground radar stations, automatic navigation equipment. New control system will cost $810 million to build, about $430 million a year to operate...
WASHINGTON, April 10--President Eisenhower gave a sympathetic boost today to allies who want to relax curbs on trade with Red China--especially the Japanese...
...FARE BOOST of 5% will go into effect on all North Atlantic flights beginning May 1, if U.S. and West European governments approve. Transatlantic lines want fare increase to offset salary hikes, higher fuel costs due to Suez crisis...
STEEL PRICES will go up again at midyear, when steelworkers get their annual raise under three-year contract. Estimates are for boost of $5 to $6 a ton; increase will be less if production stays low (currently 92% of capacity), more if auto-buying picks up sharply later in spring...
...lack experience, are often unable to keep up with the office work load. Ten years ago a beginner took at least 120 words per minute in shorthand, did 60 in -typing; today, she often takes only about 80 words per minute in shorthand, types 45. Secretarial schools cannot 'boost the standards; company raiders leave them with classrooms half empty long before graduation. Says one Atlanta school director: "Businessmen can't spell themselves, and rarely ever finish a thought. They rely on these so-called secretaries, and are horror-struck when they, discover that the blind are leading...