Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to boost student utilization of the common room facilities, Miss Cynthia Adams and James Murphy issued a manifesto listing the advantages of the facilities. The air-conditioned Grays rooms are open daily from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. for study and quiet socializing. Free coffee on Sunday mornings--plus the New York Times--provides an additional attraction...
...York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, as outspoken an advocate of faster "growth" as any Democrat, warned that the "relative military power of the U.S. as compared with the Soviet Union has steadily and drastically declined over the past 15 years" and called for a $3.5 billion boost in the next defense budget...
Despite some soft spots in consumer buying of heavy appliances, sales of leisure-time items such as TV sets, boats and swimming pools are strong. Food sales continue to move upward with the increase in consumer income. Even the lagging oil industry will get a boost in the second half, says George F. Getty II, Tidewater Oil Co. president. He expects industry earnings to be 10% to 15% over...
...auto industry will give a big boost to employment by scheduling its biggest production since 1950 for September and October. Mindful of the election coming up, United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther saw that as a deep-dyed plot by Big Three carmakers bent "on juggling production schedules for political reasons." Once Election Day was past, and the Republicans were reelected, he went on, "output would have to be cut back drastically with resultant layoffs and extensive short work weeks." The Big Three angrily retorted that there was too much money involved and too deadly a commercial rivalry...
...rest will go to others joining plan. $100 REBATE will be given to any one of Studebaker-Packard's 200,000 shareholders who buys a 1960 Lark, Hawk or Champ truck in July, August or September. Deal, first in auto industry history, is expected to boost Studebaker's lagging sales...