Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami Beach in the first round of the National Clay Courts Championships, and then because of his poor showing was fired from the 1962 Davis Cup team by Captain Robert Kelleher. In the Clay Courts men's finals, Missouri's Chuck McKinley gave U.S. prestige a modest boost by trouncing the top foreign seed, Australia's Fred Stolle...
...votes. In no fewer than 125 congressional districts, Italian-Americans account for 3% of the vote. Heavy urban concentrations in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ohio and California will figure in important statewide races this fall. And, as it happens, Kennedy's choice could give Brother Teddy a boost in his bid for the Senate. There are 311,053 Italian-Americans in Massachusetts (in a total population of 5,148,178), and there are roughly as many in Boston as there are Irish. Of late, more and more of them have been straying into the Republican camp (the state...
...TEXACO'S profits rose 14.3% above last year to 82^ a share, to give the oil company record first-half earnings of $1.73 a share; STANDARD OIL OF CALIFORNIA also profited from bigger crude oil and natural gas sales to boost its first-half earnings 5%, to $2.25 a share...
...they all try simultaneously to boost their exports and cut down their imports, agreed the latest Bank of England bulletin, then "industrial growth both here and abroad could be retarded." The British are also jumpy about U.S. talk of a coming recession, and some English bankers think that the Kennedy Administration may help bring one on by the anti-inflationary policies that it is using to stop the U.S. gold outflow and shore up confidence in the dollar. "The world's currency difficulties are now exerting a clear deflationary influence on the world economy," says the Economist, which finds...
...literally. They ran the book's sales to more than a million copies in less than a year. Last week, in commenting on a default decree, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration blasted the volume as full of false ideas, charged that it had been written and promoted to boost the sales of worthless capsules of safflower...