Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help boost the economy, the Federal Reserve Board last week unlimbered an old fiscal weapon that President Kennedy and many liberal economists have long wanted restored to the nation's antirecession arsenal. The Fed announced it would begin buying U.S. notes and bonds of longer maturity.* By entering the long-term market, the Fed can shorten the supply of bonds, push prices up-and thus help nudge yields lower. Since Government bond yields tend to set the tone of all interest rates, this policy would be expected to push long-term rates down, make money cheaper and thus encourage...
...fact that the U.S. has no rocket engines to match the feat-and is not likely to have them for four or five years. Even the orbiting last week of two relatively pint-sized Discoverer satellites (XX and XXI) served to dramatize the U.S. lag in the big boost...
Slow Readers. Khrushchev has praised a thrifty mixture of manure and factory fertilizers devised by Lysenko as "proved in the field." Most recently, in a gamble to achieve higher production through shortcuts, Khrushchev has backed a plan to send out hybrid bulls bred at "Lysenko's farm" to boost Soviet butterfat production. At last month's Central Committee meeting on agriculture, Lysenko told how he tried to get the Agriculture Ministry to act on his plan. Khrushchev interrupted: "What did the Ministry reply to you?" Lysenko: "Recently, in January, they signed an order." "And when did you write...
...made it just in time, drove a hard bargain with the Royals, who realized that he could always peddle his spectacular talents to the showboating, all-Negro Globetrotters. His three-year contract calls for an annual salary of about $33,000, plus a percentage of the gate that should boost the total take to around...
Critics also argue that the minimum-wage rise and additional coverage will boost the general wage level, spur inflation, and, by raising prices in the U.S., make it more difficult for already-high-wage U.S. industry to sell abroad. But the Labor Department study reported that after the 1956 boost, the prices of goods produced by low-wage industries showed a "negligible change" over the period 1956-60 as a whole, while the all-commodity index of prices rose 6.6%. Thus the big price boost came in the industries above the minimum. Reason: low-wage industries are often prodded...