Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radio Moscow admitted "alarming" delays in harvesting grain in Kazakhstan, Khrushchev's favorite Central Asian "virgin lands" region, which was counted on to boost this year's grain harvest 6% above 1958's 141 million-ton harvest. Many of the tractors needed to cut the crops before the first snow were out of order for lack of spare parts, grumbled Radio Moscow. Millions of bushels of cut grain were still lying out in the open because thousands of "volunteer" workers had quit in disgust with low wages and Kazakhstan's primitive living conditions. In a similar...
Murtaugh will also go with Bill Virdon--"one of the best centerfielders in baseball." "And you are going to see the best rightfielder in baseball," Murtaugh said in speaking of Roberto Clemente. An added boost to Pirate chances in the first game is the announcement that Dick Groat, team captain and shortstop, will play. After an injury Sept. 6, Groat resumed play only last weekend...
...become one of U.S. Catholicism's most distinguished educators. Along with numerous public jobs, notably the Civil Rights Commission, he has done much to prove that Notre Dame (5,500 men) is far from a football foundry. In 1958 he launched a $66 million drive to boost "academic excellence" in the next decade; much of his first Ford money will go toward a new library and research in humanities and social science...
...Government is well aware of the potency of depreciation speedups as an instrument of economic policy, has used fast tax write-offs in two wars to boost plant capacity quickly. But the Treasury has been reluctant to give businessmen the same investment opportunities in peacetime...
...Bull") Halsey led his fleet into its second typhoon in six months, a court of inquiry urged that he be transferred "to other duty," and Navy Secretary Forrestal was only dissuaded from retiring the Navy's No. 1 popular hero by the argument that to do so would boost enemy morale. Battered tin cans on Okinawa radar picket duty fought "to survive against the flaming terror of the kamikazes roaring out of the blue like the thunderbolts that Zeus hurled at bad actors in the days of old." And to take Iwo Jima as a perch for fighters escorting...