Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instructed the Veterans Administration to pay out $327,600,000 in Government life insurance dividends in January, rather than spreading the payments throughout 1963. Such a move, said the President, should "provide a needed boost to the economy...
...Auto sale's during the first third of November were up 11% to an alltime high for the period. This, following October's record sales of 728,500 U.S.-made cars, inspired automakers to boost production schedules to 2,050,000 cars for the fourth quarter, more than they have ever built in any last quarter...
Orders for machine tools jumped 22% in October, to $61 million. This is important for the whole economy because manufacturers of all kinds usually step up their ordering of tools when they plan to boost output in the coming months. Toolmakers reported that orders were coming in from companies in every branch of business. "While the increase isn't startlingly high," says a top Administration economist, "purchases of machinery can be the trigger to a new advance in capital spending." If so, it would mean that the Kennedy Administration's grant of tax credits for plant modernization...
Builders are getting their biggest boost from the demand for new apartments. A decade ago, when the great yearning was for a home in the suburbs, apartments accounted for only 10% to 15% of the housing starts; this year they will amount to 30% across the nation, to 50% or so in greater Chicago and Southern California -and to a whopping 80% in New York City. Among the key factors behind this rise: the number of older couples who want easy-to-care-for apartments is increasing, and land prices have shot up so much that apartments are a more...
...prepared to take countermeasures. "We did not come here to threaten," said Freeman in Brussels-and then he went on to threaten that the U.S. may boost some tariffs of its own if the Common Market does. But the newly potent Europeans appeared to be unruffled. They feel that the U.S. needs their markets more than they need U.S. markets...