Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Harvard team, with the exceptions of McCaffrey and Jantzen, took advantage of the opportunity to boost their season's averages. Mays knocked out six singles in seven trips to the plate. Lupien showed great hitting power by driving two home-runs, a double, and a single in six times at bat. Wood also was credited with a double and four one-base hits out of seven attempts. Gleason accounted for the third Crimson homer. A Harvard victory was more than assured by the first seven innings but in the eighth there was no stopping the Crimson assault...
...Vermont) in 1913. In 1927 he bought National Electric Power (not to be confused with Electric Bond & Share's National Power & Light) and embarked upon a rapid expansion in New England. Frustrated by Maine's laws against the export of power, he turned to developing Maine's industries to boost consumption. Last year a subsidiary, New England Industries, Inc., reported that its invest ments in Maine's textile industry were $11,844,000, in Maine newsprint $13,848,000, in other New England industries about $3,000,000. To repeal Maine's laws against export of power Mr. Insull played...
...sales tax, it was part of the coalition's strategy to substitute heavier levies elsewhere in the bill. The bill already raised the normal tax on net incomes (after deduction) of $8,000 or more from the present 5% to 6%. The House voted (121-to-81) to boost this levy to 7%. Where the bill upped the maximum surtax from 20% to 40% on over $100,000, the House voted (153-to-87) to invoke again the Wartime scale of surtaxes, boosting the rate beyond the $100,000 mark to a maximum levy of 65% on incomes over...
...other line (except Anchor, a Cunard subsidiary) hastened to follow Cunard's lead to boost travel traffic. U. S. companies continued their attacks on the "nowhere" cruises from New York to New York. Senator White of Maine had two bills before the Senate to halt the practice as injurious to U. S. shipping. U. S. seamen. He rallied supporters at a hearing before the Commerce Committee. Said David E. Grange, president of the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union: "A sailor on the beach is just like a defeated United States Senator...
...year-old insurance man, as head of the Musical Association, probably gives more than anyone else towards the orchestra's support. President Levison played the flute himself once in an amateur symphonic band. He staunchly advocates music as a hobby for businessmen. Prominent businessmen who were drafted to boost the $175,000 campaign starting this week included Bankers Mortimer Fleishhacker and William Henry Crocker, Sugar-broker Wallace McKinney Alexander, Chamber of Commerceman Leland Cutter. Robert Watt Miller, able young son of President Christian Otto Gerberding Miller of Pacific Lighting Corp., has charge of the drive...