Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tools. His message eschewed the massive pump-priming plans and public-works projects dear to some economists, stressed instead the expansion of existing programs. He urged Congress to boost minimum social security benefits (from $33 a month to $43), lift the minimum wage (from $1 an hour to $1.15 immediately, then to $1.25 within two years), stretch out unemployment compensation payments, and pass a depressed-areas bill. Said House Republican Minority Leader Charles Halleck of those proposals: "We find no great quarrel with them, but we do not find them earthshaking...
...Neutron Bomb. Pentagon worriers go a step farther than AEC. They argue that the U.S. cannot afford to remain stagnant in nuclear development even if the Soviets do, for clear-cut U.S. nuclear superiority is the best deterrent to attack. A few further nuclear tests, they say, would boost threefold the blast power of the two key U.S. deterrent missiles - the mobile, solid-fueled Polaris and Minuteman -which now carry warheads of one-half megaton, v. an estimated eight megatons for Soviet ICBMs. Testing would also speed development of a next-generation "neutron bomb." Now on the drawing boards, that...
...editor, the Saturday Review of Literature began trying by one device after another to escape its original charter as a magazine of literary criticism. But for all its experimentation, the Saturday Review (circ. 248,179) has remained a magazine of comparatively limited audience. Last week it accepted a boost from a giant...
...President also reiterated some of his longstanding legislative proposals: boost postal rates, increase gasoline taxes, lift the 4¼% ceiling on Treasury bonds to stretch out the debt, liberalize depreciation allowances to encourage capital investment. Though Democratic Congressmen have frustrated several such proposals in the past, John Kennedy may look more favorably upon them as means to increase federal income and spur the economy. But it was less likely that Kennedy would stay with Ike's spending proposals, or meet his challenge to balance the budget. Said incoming Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, in testifying before the Senate Finance...
...become enterprising entrepreneurs. Though they have no desire for riches, the religious communities have installed mass-production factories, are turning out cheese, wine, bread, jellies, fruit cake, even beef on the hoof, selling them both nationally and locally. Usually of excellent quality, their products have received a sales boost from the rising interest in gourmet foods and, in the case of such items as hearty monastic bread, from the nation's growing health consciousness...