Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic Charities sent the shy little dwarf to New Orleans Charity Hospital, where for two years she took large dally doses of the growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly: "I'm taller than Helen Hayes." (Miss Hayes's height: five feet...
...uncooked citron is highly perishable, Grower Hart will not wait for fall when processors begin buying for the holiday season. Instead, he will process most of the 1938 crop himself, and this, he expects, will boost his profits. Fresh citron sells for 5? to 8? a lb.; after processing it brings 20? to 25?; retailers charge 39? to 45?. Mr. Hart will sell direct to West Coast grocers, will distribute nationally through Calavo Growers of California, cooperative wholesalers with 35 outlets throughout the U. S. Meanwhile, he is interesting food research groups. At present they are trying to prove that...
...Wisconsin's Francis Ryan Duffy, an Administration man, has received an unmistakable White House pat, almost as broad as the endorsement of Son-Secretary James Roosevelt which helped boost Florida's Claude Pepper to victory month ago. Meantime two States where Gardener Roosevelt has been busy went to the polls...
...compiled results but it was generally admitted that the Nazis had upped their representation. In four Sudeten German cities the Nazis increased their municipal parliament seats from 69 to 105. In Prague, the National Socialist Party, to which Eduard Benes himself belonged before becoming President, received a boost of 30% in its representation...
...shouldered, multichinned General Cedillo, onetime Mexican bandit who rode with famed Pancho Villa, has been Strong-man in San Luis Potosí for some 20 years. His private agrarian army, which he maintains on his extensive Potosí landholdings, helped boost Señor Cárdenas into the Presidency in 1934 and Señor Cedillo became Minister of Agriculture. The General, however, opposed the land expropriation Cárdenas program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potos...