Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million Development Loan Fund. The armed forces will cut down on offshore procurement, and U.S. post exchanges and commissaries overseas will stock only U.S. goods. At the same time the U.S. will twist every foreign arm in sight to get reductions in tariffs on American goods and thus boost U.S. exports...
...workers; British Ford slashed overtime for 30,000. Pleas to the government to spur domestic sales by easing tight credit restrictions have been turned down by Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, who ruled that any encouragement of domestic sales would reduce the incentives to boost exports, which the British economy so desperately needs to maintain a favorable balance of trade...
...airlines' case for the Electra got a boost from both the Federal Aviation Agency and the Civil Aeronautics Board last week. Both agreed that the Electra crash in Boston was definitely caused by starlings that choked the plane's engines. As if to underscore their findings, an Eastern Airlines DC-8 jet struck a flock of birds last week as it taxied for a take-off from Boston's Logan International Airport, slammed to a stop on the runway only in the nick of time. Alarmed, Logan authorities established roving bands of shotgun-armed guards who have...
Proposals for a "Peace Corps" of U.S. youth got a boost last weekend at a Princeton conference of students, educators, foundation and government officials. Establishing a steering committee, the conference urged President-elect Kennedy to set before Congress legislation concerning a youth service program, and called for research, in cooperation with foreign leaders, on those needs of newly developing countries which a U.S. youth corps could help meet...
...upcoming bumper wool clip of 120,000 tons will mean a new boost in living standards. More than $70 million in private capital invested abroad has returned home to provide new capital and new jobs. Damage from last April's floods is repaired; electric power, in fact, had increased 35% by last July. Even Montevideo's normally belligerent students are quieting down as the Nardone-Haedo leadership slowly pushes Uruguay uphill...