Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense, the fact that there will be bare patches in the big steel stands is a boost for the judgment of Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell. When the football hysteria was at its height, when the undergraduate editors were shrieking themselves hoarse about overemphasis and when it looked as though the demand for seats and more seats would never be satiated, plans were drawn for a Stadium that would seat 120,000. But Dr. Lowell said, in effect: "Build in the open end of your Stadium, put in a permanent structure, but don't worry about handling more people than...
...editors of the Critic were protesting a year ago. Nothing in it is sufficiently novel, arresting or unorthodox to justify the Critic's existence as a separate publication. If it is not to be more of a gadfly than this, it ought to merge with an older sheet and boost the advertising rates. I trust that it will not. Harvard can use some gadflies, but they are a peculiarly useless insect if they do not sting. The obvious thing, I should think, is to look up some barbs
...conference. Even if he felt more inclined than before to caution, the President did not decide to abandon Professor Warren's ideas-not at least till they had had some further trial. Monday morning the R. F. C.'s gold price again was given another boost, was set at $33.45 (equivalent to a 61.79 cent dollar) and the dollar once more started down in foreign exchange...
...allotment plan (reduction of production compensated by the proceeds of processing taxes) to wheat, cotton, tobacco, hogs. Loans of 10? a lb. are planned for cotton farmers agreeing to crop reduction. In addition, for producers of rice, fruit, peanuts and milk, AAA arranged marketing agreements which were calculated to boost prices. Henry Morgenthau Jr. was authorized to direct a $2,000,000,000 refinancing program to ease the burden of farm mortgagees through Farm Credit Administration. And during the month, FCA announced that its loans for crop production and harvesting had passed the $200,000,000 mark, of which...
...nights later, at a reception in Manhattan by the American Jewish Congress, Dr. Ludwig boasted that the Nazi burning of his books and those of many another Jew and Pacifist, including Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), is helping to boost their world sales, quickening the flow of royalty checks to Switzerland where Friends Ludwig and Remarque bank their money in gold francs. "The night of the public burning of the books," said Author Ludwig. "I invited my friend, Erich Maria Remarque, to drink with me. We opened our oldest Rhine wine, turned on the radio, heard...