Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo requested a chance to speak to General Electric workers at Lynn last month in defense of his embattled proposal to boost the state sales tax, they deluged him with 200 unfriendly questions, such as: "When are you going to forget your giveaway programs?" "Why don't you do something to stop the disgraceful, wasteful spending of the taxpayers' dollars...
Goalkeeper. The U.S.'s block-that-tax-boost, hold-those-prices mood went far toward explaining Washington's most remarkable phenomenon of 1959: the triumph of President Eisenhower's balanced-budget goal, despite the spending plans that Democrats brought with them when Congress convened last January. Back then, with Democrats showing the flush of November victory and the economy still showing traces of pallor, some of the President's own advisers warned that a balanced budget would be out of keeping with the trend and temper of the times...
...national feeling that Japan, while growing economically strong, is still "the orphan of Asia," disliked by its neighbors, ignored or discounted by the West. Sensitive Japanese are already wincing at the journalists' jeers in England at the discovery that a London public relations firm had been hired to boost the Premier's stock there. Other Japanese fear a disaster like the visit to London of Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, who insisted on making a TV appearance. When, with the camera on him, he was shown a box of Japanese ball bearings that copied a well-known British brand...
...change Vatican working hours from the traditional 8 a.m.-to-2 p.m. schedule, to answer the complaints of many foreign prelates, diplomats and newsmen, who have long protested that it is almost impossible to get the ponderous, antique machinery of the Vatican to grind after lunch. Together, the wage boost and hour stretchout will probably cut down on the Vatican tradition of "moonlighting," i.e., taking on extra spare-time jobs...
...high. Industrial output rose 22 percentage points over June 1958, to 154% of the 1947-49 averages. As consumers opened their purses, retail trade in the first six months jumped $7.5 billion to a new high of $102.5 billion. In the process, it gave a long-delayed boost to many an industry that earlier watched the parade of recovery go by. TV setmakers, for example, expected 1959 shipments to exceed 1958's 4.8 million by almost a million, as individual manufacturers' six-month sales gains ranged as high as 30% for Emerson. 50% for Sylvania...