Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration indicated that it means to stand firm in South Viet Nam, and it announced a $41 million increase in funds for military aid. But a boost in aid funds cannot alone preserve the freedom of South Viet Nam. The U.S. poured some $310 million into little Laos during the past six years, yet that was not enough. If the U.S. is to save South Viet Nam, it must be willing to get far more deeply involved-to the point of fighting, if necessary. Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a press conference last week that "questions of defense...
...interstate network to be completed in the early 1970s. Resisting heavy pressures from the oil and trucking lobbies, the House voted to bankroll the bill by continuing the current 4?-per-gallon tax on gasoline and diesel fuel (both were slated to drop to 3? next month), and to boost taxes on trucks, tires, inner tubes. The bill now goes to the Senate, which is expected to examine it critically...
...Breech, 64, former board chairman of Ford Motor Co., was elected chairman of the board of Trans-World Airlines, although the operating head will continue to be new President Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. TWA also announced a $183 million purchase-and-lease arrangement with Boeing Airplane Co. to boost its jet fleet to 77 planes by the fall...
...they actually would drop sharply. "In the modern world," said Lloyd, "the work of the manager, the scientist, the technologist" must not be taxed out of existence. As if anticipating the angry protests from the Labor benches at this boon to a special high-salaried class, Lloyd announced a boost in the profits tax on industry (to 53¾% of a company's income), declared that firms could no longer charge off as "business expenses" on their tax returns automobiles worth more than $5,600, i.e., the Jaguars and Rolls-Royces...
...system of fixing excise and purchase taxes by law, leave it to the government to manipulate the rates within limits as it sees fit, raising the taxes when the domestic market is absorbing too many goods better exported, lowering them when the home economy needs a bit of a boost...