Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unruffled British calm began shipping their families south. Forty-five U.S. Baptist missionaries in eastern Assam began to pull out, turning over mission schools and hospitals to Indian assistants. Some imported food was in short supply, and India's banyas (village shopkeepers) took advantage of the situation to boost prices. The evidence of the Chinese advance came, oddly enough, from transistor radios. At first it was possible to tune in on Indian army short-wave transmitters and hear orders and messages in Urdu. From midweek on, Indians listened to the messages of the advancing Chinese. An added source...
...made a triumphant entrance into San Francisco-where 120,000 Californians jammed the sidewalks of the Montgomery Street financial district to give him a roaring welcome. He was there to give Dick Nixon a boost in his campaign for Governor; if there was ever any doubt about Ike's enthusiasm for his Vice President, none remained after he spoke at a Cow Palace banquet. "Several months ago in Denmark," said Ike, "I observed that one of the biggest mistakes of my political career was not working harder for Dick Nixon in 1960. I urge...
...direction of peppy, longtime (34 years) Editor Louis B. Seltzer, 65, who has won the title of "Mr. Cleveland." Seltzer pays close attention to Cleveland's minorities, has made his paper's endorsement so valuable that it is often tantamount to election. The Press helped boost Frank Lausche from municipal judge to Cleveland mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator-a triple assist that Lausche himself acknowledges-and also helped elect present Health. Education and Welfare Commissioner Anthony Celebrezze to the Cleveland mayor's chair. >-Scripps-Howard's biggest newspaper, New York's World-Telegram...
...Boost. Rolls-Royce's founding genius was the late Henry Royce, a compulsive tinkerer who in 1904 built an auto so silent and efficient that it won him the financial backing of Charles Stewart Rolls, an elegant aristocrat who owned a London auto sales agency. In 1906 the pair began turning out the famed Silver Ghost, a car that stayed in production for 19 years. Royce was a fanatic on mechanical perfection, and his high standards have become the company's most hallowed tradition. At Rolls-Royce's auto plant in northwest England, Rolls cars (which...
...factor either advances the businessman up to 90% of the amount he is owed at 7.2% interest, or pays him in full when the bills fall due. Thus, the client is spared the necessity of tying up funds in credit, can turn over his working capital More quickly and boost his sales. In effect, the small businessman who turns to a factor is heeding Omar Khayyam's advice: "Ah, take the cash, and let the credit...