Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever McSween's reasons, by casting his one vote he had given a considerable boost to the Administration's hopes for its farm program, which would clamp such tight production controls on many farmers that they would be little more than the Government's hired hands. House Democrats now think they have enough votes to pass the bill intact. Over on the Senate side, the Agriculture Committee butchered the bill, but Majority Leader Mike Mansfield believes that the Democrats can restore most of the controls before final passage. Because of McSween's vote, said a grateful...
Immediate cause of the trouble was Spain's longest, biggest and costliest labor dispute since the Civil War. The fight began last month in the coal fields of the northern province of Asturias, where miners, alarmed at skyrocketing prices, struck for a $1.50 wage boost, to bring their pay to $2.50 a day. Though strikes are illegal, the miners stubbornly stuck to their walkout; they had no strike funds, no organization, ran the risk of losing all their social security and pension benefits from the government's puppet labor union. But their tenacity won them sympathizers; from...
...inflationary and deflationary policies of the Menderes regime: "In the U.S., you can build up a business and live on it for three generations. Here, in one generation I've run through three businesses." The government has kept the currency stabilized, is gamely trying to slash imports and boost exports to reduce the chronic trade deficit of $150 million a year. But the basic problem is to raise national income to meet Turkey's rapid population increase (3% annually, compared to 2% in India). Other badly needed improvements delayed by the political stalemate are housing, education, a modernized...
...Boost from Yeast. Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, imaginative and resourceful head of Montreal's famed Allan Memorial Institute, was impressed by the fact that as his patients grew older, the amount of RNA in their cells decreased. Although the plausible theory that the imprint of memory is reflected in changes in RNA molecules (TIME, Feb. 10, 1961) has not yet been proved, Dr. Cameron wondered whether patients with memory defects might be helped by booster doses...
Curry insisted that even a five per cent hike will boost tax rate $4.70 per $1000 evaluation, but Sullivan suggested that "the City may be able to afford more than five per cent when Harvard begins to help the City with tax problems...