Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buzzing around to boost the Federal Wages & Hours Law, Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews last week buzzed off the following opinions for Denver and Chicago businessmen...
...much do de luxe publishers contribute to the cause of literature? They give esthetic pleasure to a few genuine book lovers, a big boost to the technique of book design. But mainly they still thrive on snob appeal. There is probably one chance that de luxe publishers may genuinely further the cause of contemporary letters-if The Derrydale Press should discover a writer who writes half as well as he handles guns and fishing rods...
Prospects for a successful Crimson hockey season were given another big boost at the Boston Arena Saturday night, when Coach Clark Hodder's surprising sextet followed their opening victory against the Junior Olympics by outplaying a fast Southern California team to the tune of 6 to 2 before a crowd...
When Federal agents arrested young Lawyer Buckner as he debarked from the Queen Mary last week, they said his racket had been bonds of the Philippine Railway Co. When the bonds were down around $10, he got himself appointed chairman of the bondholders' protective committee. To boost the bonds, the Federals said, he flew to Manila and from there flashed word that he was getting the Philippine Commonwealth to take the issue over at $50 or maybe $65. The bonds shot up to $31 last January and February, crashed when President Manuel Quezon categorically denied his Government was buying...
...band blared and the citizenry gawped, 64-year-old Mark Sullivan, stalwart standpat of U. S. political journalism, rode up the main street of West Chester, Pa. as its No. 1 local-boy-who-made-good. Purpose: To top off his 50 years as a newspaper man (and boost his autobiography, The Education of an American) by doing a day's work in the town where he began. Because both papers on which he worked have been long defunct, he had to do it on their rival sheet, the daily Local News, under Editor Edwin L. McKinstry. Canada...