Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that way. While calling for history's biggest peacetime expenditures-$80.9 billion, up $2 billion from fiscal '61-Ike's final budget was based on the expectation that the economy will speed up by the time the new fiscal year begins this July 1. That would boost income by some $3.3 billion, to a record $82.3 billion. Result: a surplus of almost $1.5 billion (v. $100 million this fiscal year) and a modest reduction in the nation's $284.9 billion debt...
Mutual Security: Boost spending for foreign aid and military assistance by $250 million, to $3.6 billion...
...second printing will boost to 30,000 the number of copies of the study, which is called Keynes at Harvard, and is subtitled "Economic Deception as a Political Credo...
...feathers and declare economic independence. To the embarrassment-and distress-of the U.S., Canadian businessmen scrambled after trade with the Communist regime in Cuba, stayed strictly neutral in the politics and the battle. And then there is the Canadian government's year-end emergency budget, which promised a boost for Canadian business at the expense of U.S. capital investors. To Canadian enterprises went $60 million worth of tax concessions designed to prime Canadian investment at home; to foreign stock and bond holders went a heavy 15% tax on the flow of dividends and capital, designed to inhibit the capital...
Borrowing money to start up again. Piper moved to an abandoned silk mill in Lock Haven, set up the Piper Aircraft Corp. Cub sales rose from 22 in 1931 to 687 in 1937, when Piper took over as the No. 1 U.S. light-plane maker. Piper got a tremendous boost from the war. More than 5,000 easily maneuverable Pipers served as reconnaissance, liaison and ambulance planes. They became known to G.I.s as "flying Jeeps" and to the Germans as "hell raisers" because bombing raids often followed their reconnaissance flights. Piper, like other small-plane makers, was shoved into...