Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past year, only four of the 14 general Paris dailies have increased their circulations significantly, while most of the others lost thousands of readers. With costs continually rising, Parisian publishers are thinking of jacking prices up to 30 centimes (6?), even though the 5-centime boost would probably send sales tumbling even farther...
...with 117,000 circulation, jumped sharply because of its coverage of the Ecumenical Council. While third-ranked Le Figaro held its own at 409,000 with its sober, comprehensive reporting, fourth-ranked L'Aurore trained its sights on a specific audience-the returnees from Algeria-and managed to boost circulation to 390,110. At Le Monde (193,017), austere Editor Hubert Beuve-Mery, 61, immerses his readers in a sea of small type without so much as a single photograph to cling to. But he has also made his paper must reading by virtue of penetrating, if plodding, political...
Smith-Corona's new typewriter is the latest of a stream of portable nickel-cadmium-powered consumer products that have helped to boost sales of the batteries to $20 million; the industry expects its sales to be $200 million within a decade, considers the rechargeable battery its equivalent of the electronics industry's transistor. "Now man is fettered by a cord," says Research Engineer Frank Kamen of Chicago's toolmaking Skil Corp. "We want to release his bonds...
...engineers and 260 other employees, who now make testers for almost any antenna from TV to military fire control, and its success has attracted venture capital from Rockefeller Bros., Inc., put up at Laurance Rockefeller's recommendation. "Space activity," says Robinson, "has given this field a big boost. There is no other way to communicate with a space vehicle except through an antenna...
...Acting under a 42-year-old U.S. anti-dumping law, the Treasury Department last month ruled that Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg had been dumping wire rods in the U.S., turned the case over to the Tariff Com mission for a final ruling next month. Because the Tariff Commission can boost duties retroactively, many American importers have slashed their buying just to be on the safe side. One result: imports of some German steel products are running 75% below normal rates...