Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playchoice has prospered. For January it chose Death Takes a Holiday; for February, Rebound; for March it offered a choice between Topaze, The Last Mile, The Green Pastures. Several hundred enthusiastic subscribers now boost Krimsky's scheme. Among them: Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. Samuel Sloane Auchincloss...
Antique dealers had good cause to cooperate and boost business in last week's show. A genuine work of art of any period has always a certain definite value. A work of art that is also in fashion has an additional value many times greater. Apart from the general lassitude which has gripped all luxury trades since the stock-market break, for the past year Fashion has deserted the antiquaries...
Decision by Mr. Ford to give Irish prosperity this potent boost was taken on the famed junket to England (TIME, April 23, 1928), during which King George and Queen Mary put etiquette in their royal pockets and went to the house of Viscountess Astor, where they were in effect presented to Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Long, informal and marked by cordiality on both sides was the ensuing chat between the King of Men and the Monarch of Motors, a chat which may just possibly have been momentous and lucky for Ireland...
...figures that, after allowing for depreciation, its property is now worth $200,000,000-an estimate based on the cost of replacement at higher price levels, the value of franchises, patents, goodwill and other intangibles. On that basis it earns only 5%. It ups its rates to consumers to boost its earnings and its percentage of profit. The State interferes. The corporation appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court which must decide the concern's property value against which income may be figured. The court agrees that the company is worth say $195,000,000, that...
Hence Bartholomew Josiah Palmer restricted himself last week to advising his colleagues, colloquially, on how to boost their business, which seems generally in a poor way. One way was to use a diagnostic machine, a "neurocalometer," which he helped to invent. The chiropractor is to apply this apparatus to his patient's spine. It is supposed to indicate how poorly "nerve impulses" are flowing and thus to indicate where the chiropractor should lay his hands. Exhorted Dr. Palmer, characteristically: "You want to step up your results. I know you do, and it's only right you should...