Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Members of the House, who had ex pressed great skepticism before approv ing the creation of the Administration's Peace Corps a year ago, wholeheartedly praised the Corps while voting 316-70 to increase its personnel from 2,400 to 6,700, boost its budget from $30 million...
...SHOCK! Sprouts & Privacy. Last week fare shocks and Tiddlydike nostalgia reached a record peak. Dr. Richard Beeching, the blunt, brusque businessman hired-for $67,000 a year, highest salary ever paid a British civil servant-to shunt the nationalized railways out of the red, announced a nationwide 10% fare boost...
...limited circulation-chronically lose money and depend on well-heeled readers and sympathizers to bail them annually out of the red. They would be hard put to survive even a modest postal rate increase-and the one under consideration is by no means modest. It would, for example, boost the Nation's annual mail bill from...
...Boost the tax on cigarettes-already 46? on average brands selling for 63? a pack-and reduce it on less harmful cigars and pipe tobacco...
...Cohn, 35, the boy Torquemada of the McCarthy era, Weinberg and friends bought up 23% of Fifth Avenue's stock for $3,500,000, put Weinberg in the driver's seat. Straightway, he began to complain that the company was barreling toward bankruptcy, demanded a fare boost from 15? to 20? to save it. Mayor Wagner, who had promised to hold fares down, would tolerate none of that. Roared Weinberg: "Somebody's a liar. Mayor Wagner says the company can operate with a 15? fare. I say it can't." Then Weinberg tried a whipsawing...