Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exception: Columbia University's President Grayson Kirk last week urged Columbia College to boost enrollment by 60% (to 4,000) as soon as possible...
...FARE HIKE of about 5% is in the works for domestic carriers. New fares would boost airlines' rate of return on investments to 10.5%. Because of promised fare increase, Capital Airlines asked to withdraw its $13 million subsidy request, and CAB agreed not to investigate Capital...
Even after the delay, it made its point: that the Atlas can reach any target in the world from hardened bases in the continental U.S. And it proved that the missile has enough extra boost to indulge in a roundabout, enemy-confusing route...
...market got a healthy boost from President Eisenhower's press-conference "good news" about the U.S. economy. Ike made one announcement that everyone had long expected: final figures for the gross national product during the first quarter were above earlier estimates. The value of goods and services produced in the U.S. had nudged over the magic half-trillion-dollar mark, was running at the rate of $502 billion a year...
...this year. The Government hopes that an easing in mortgage money will bring a further pickup. Auto production last week was scheduled to reach 150,338 units, the highest since February; sales were still booming along, led by the compact cars. Next month Ford will make the eighth boost in production of its compact Falcon, stepping it up 10%. That will bring the Falcon to an annual rate of nearly 600,000 cars-just about double the company's early estimates of what it would sell...