Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stomping Success. Behind the rise of the seven dwarfs was the bitter yearning to get revenge on Oklahoma and canny Coach Bud Wilkinson, who annually rolled up the score on the hapless likes of Kansas State and Iowa State to boost his team's claim on a national championship. "If any of us gets Bud down," said one Big Eight coach, "I sure hope he stomps him good...
RENTAL COMPACTS are so popular with economy-minded customers that agencies are stepping up their purchases, cutting back on standard low-price cars. Hertz says 15% of its 1961 fleet will be compacts, a hefty boost from 6% last year. Hertz rents compacts for $9 a day and 9? a mile, compared to $10 and 10? for their larger cars...
...will be the first full-scale commercial test of the teaching machine's appeal, and both industry and education will watch the results closely. Grolier hopes to sell $5,000,000 worth of Min-Max machines and programed courses in the first year, give a boost to Grolier profits ($2,100,000 in 1960's first half). If Grolier succeeds, the teaching-machine boom will...
...into $102,000. His first boost was from Walter E. Heller Co. (TIME, Feb. 15), which loaned him $1,000,000-at 10% interest. In 1955 he raised more capital by selling bonds with warrants convertible into common stock. The stock-bond package offered at about $4,000 in 1955 is now worth $102,000, and seven of the investors who gambled on Walter have made more than $1,000,000 each since then...
...Republican-controlled legislature balked, instead proposed a sales tax increase from 3% to 4%. Neither side budged. Newspaper polls showed that the public preferred a sales tax boost to an income tax, but Williams blocked a referendum. Result: chaotic insolvency...