Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wise pilots do not have to be told to fly clear of the wakes of nearby aircraft, especially big ones. They know that the turbulent air behind big, fast planes may be full of invisible, wing-racking bumps. And the danger has been growing worse as airliners boost both speed and size. Last week Aerodynamicist William A. McGowan of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported just how dangerous jet-age wake bumps...
Down Tools. Through this leak in the Iron Curtain, the very lifeblood of East Germany dribbles out at a steady, undiminished rate. Almost 75% of the escapees are under 45-the very age group that Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht needs most to boost production and fulfill East Germany's role as one of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest trade partners and source of much of the Communist bloc's heavy machinery...
With its proffered $1 billion (subject to congressional budget trimming), the U.S. is far and away the biggest contributor. Next: the World Bank with $400 million, Germany with $364 million. The boost reflects President Kennedy's own long advocacy of Indian aid during his Senate days, plus Nehru's persuasive argument that his country is not only the world's biggest democracy, but also contains a third of the world's backward people. It will bring to nearly $5 billion the U.S. aid to India since 1951, v. Russian aid of roughly $800 million...
...evidence of a V-shaped recovery increases, it will inevitably affect the decisions of U.S. businessmen in two areas that could give the economy another boost: hiring and stockpiling...
...currently drawing more people than can easily be absorbed." To pay its share of the $65 million World's Fair cost, Los Angeles would also have to hike its already "staggering burden" of taxes, a price that McClellan does not feel would be justified by the temporary economic boost the city would get from fairbound tourists...