Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance of his players on the training trip, and noted that "they look better at this time than they did last year." Despite the astronomical team batting average of .283, he warned that playing every day had worn down the pitchers and made it easier for the batters to boost their averages. The most hopeful sign for Shepard was the performance of his two top pitchers, Garibaldi and Al Yarbro...
More Gambling. While businessmen generally look to increased federal spending to help the economy along, it is also scheduled to get a solid boost this year from heavy spending by state and local governments. Non-Federal Government spending has been rising at an annual average of $3 billion since World War II as population movements and the growth of cities have added to the responsibilities of states and municipalities. In 1961. reports the Survey of Current Business, purchases of goods and services by states and municipalities will hit a record $51 billion, up $3½ billion over last year...
...production of P. & P.'s Kennedy-type rockers (it also makes chairs and stools) from 200 to 1,500 a month, raising his work force from 20 to 60 workers. Whether or not the rocking chair becomes a symbol of the New Frontier, its newfound popularity gives a boost to at least one Kennedy program: Asheboro's unemployment is about 5%, and P. & P. had cut its work force because of the recession...
...House minority leader. "And I think we still do.'' No matter how often the House Democrats counted the noses, no matter how hard they pleaded, cajoled and threatened, they could not come up with the magic number needed to pass President Kennedy's must bill to boost the $1 minimum wage to $1.25 and broaden coverage. History was against them. The House had killed the same bill last summer, and since then the Republicans had gained 21 seats...
Most of the nation's economists appeared to think last week that the recession had at last hit bottom. Typifying the more confident mood, William F. Butler, vice president for economic research of the Chase Manhattan Bank, predicted that a vigorous recovery will boost the U.S. economy to a level of "full prosperity" in 1962. "The potential exists," said Butler, "for a good rate of expansion in markets for private durable goods, business plant and equipment, housing, automobiles, appliances and other consumer durable goods...