Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself, I do not feel quite as confident about Laura Riding's status as you do. What's the difference? What you said . . . was a great boost for a viewpoint which it has taken some of us a third of a century |to present...
Last spring, faced with Depression II, the Eastern roads recalled their bitterness, persuaded even the B. & O. that higher passenger fares were the thing. In July, ICC agreed to a rise in the coach fare from 2½-to-2½?. This time, instead of the $32,000,000 boost in revenue which Mr. Williamson and friends expected, passenger revenues dropped-the New York Central's falling 17% in August, compared with 1937, the B. & O.'s 19.5%, the New Haven's 3%. This slump continued until the Christmas holidays, when the roads experimentally restored...
There are other explanations-that Prohibition gave coffee drinking a big boost, that high-pressure advertising plus cheap retail prices has put it over, that the nervous national tempo leads to excessive use of all stimulants. But it also may be that when depression nips an average man's buying power, he finds a 5? cup of coffee a sort of emotional ersatz for more expensive things...
...efforts to bring farm prices into line, the New Deal has only three alternatives: 1) boost crop prices by controlling farm production, in which AAA I and AAA II have only partly succeeded; 2) lower prices of manufactured goods; 3) devalue the dollar again, giving commodity prices an inflationary shot in the arm. With new devaluation already threatened for the weak currencies of Britain and France, the homecoming of Ambassador Kennedy from England last fortnight hatched a new brood of rumors that the dollar's gold content was about to be cut from 59? to 50?. Asked about these...
...much of which undoubtedly will be used to buy U. S. trucks and motor parts) granted by the New Deal's Export-Import Bank-interpreted as the U. S. answer to Japan's slamming the once open door to U. S. commerce in the occupied regions. Another boost to China came in the form of 15 fighting planes contributed by sympathizers in the U. S., Canada and Cuba...