Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sluggard economy has been further braked by the poor performance in steel. Last week steel production was scheduled to decline again, run at 53-8% of capacity. The big hope is that brisk sales of 1961 car models later in the year (see below) will give a boost to the lagging steel industry, thus move the whole economy off center. Since January, reported the First National City Bank of New York, industrial production has shown "a classic pattern of rolling readjustment." Right now, that readjustment shows just enough recessive tendencies to prevent the economy from moving forward strongly...
...scientist's sternest task is to admit the inevitable, and in space travel the unhappy inevitable may be that man can never journey "safely" to the moon and planets. But scientists are making plans just the same. The huge, multistage rocket with which Russia launched its Dognik could boost a 600-lb. capsule into orbit around the moon, and the size of the capsule can be increased by 100 Ibs. for each additional 20,000 Ibs. of thrust that Soviet scientists can coax from the boost er. Says a U.S. engineer: "The Russians probably could soft-land an instrument...
...analysts than it has in more than a year. The market continued a three-week rise, closed for the week with a gain of 6.86 points (at 636.13) on the Dow-Jones industrial average, after retreating slightly at week's end. It also got a psychological boost when many large banks followed the lead of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. in reducing from 5% to 4½% the interest it charges its best corporate borrowers...
...came Gloomy Sunday. "In death I'm caressing you," mourned a lonely lover, "with the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you." Song pluggers boasted that the ditty gave a big boost to suicide rates all over the world, particularly along the blue Danube, where students were said to have jumped in in droves...
...with the war coming on, Coco retired. In 1953, to boost lagging Chanel No. 5 sales, Pierre Wertheimer, owner of the perfumes, asked Coco to resume designing. Since then, she has proved that for all the random fads and seasonal excitements, perhaps the surest touch in fashion is still Chanel...