Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of national prestige. Glenn's flight put the U.S. back in the space race with a vengeance, and gave the morale of the U.S. and the entire free world a huge and badly needed boost. Contrasted with earlier Russian shots, it was a great victory for the open society that produced Glenn?and proved the wisdom, in terms that Wilson might have used, of "open shots openly viewed...
When Mintoff tried to boost tourism in order to help the economy, hurt by cutbacks at the British naval base, the Archbishop squelched a proposal to build a gambling casino and censured bikinis as immodest. Finally, left-leaning Mintoff threatened to seek economic aid from neutralist Egypt or Communist Yugoslavia. For "grave offenses against ecclesiastical authorities," the Archbishop put the Labor Party's entire leadership under interdict (denying them confession, communion or consecrated burial), made it a mortal sin for a Catholic to support the Socialists...
Since taking charge, "Uncle Dave" Shoup has presided over a boost in Marine manpower from 175,000 to 190,000, upgraded the First Marine Brigade on Hawaii as the nucleus of a Fourth Division. With its air support, it can be deployed anywhere on 30 days' notice, and, says Shoup, "I wouldn't be ashamed to put it in?" He has ordered promotion exams for officers as well as noncoms...
...third Texaco takeover of a major crude producer since Long became chairman six years ago. He is a determined Annapolis graduate (1926) who quit the Navy because he decided he would never make admiral. His emphasis on domestic crude production has paid off royally for Texaco, helped boost the company's 1961 earnings to a record $430 million, v. $392 million...
...boost earnings. President Charles Francis Adams five years ago brought in as executive vice president hard-driving Harold...