Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which only one member did not smoke "pot"-and he was called an addict by the narcotics users because he took Miltown. Among the "benefits" the users feel they get from dope: 1) "contact high," a sort of group excitement; 2) release from personal problems; and 3) a physical boost on road trips when they pull into a town after an all-day bus ride and have to play all evening. Said one player-who prefers drugs to alcohol: "If you drank feeling that tired, you'd fall on your face...
...Kappel rose to applause for his fine 1959 and first-quarter 1960 earnings report (TIME, April 18). ⅛But when President Kappel explained what was on his mind, the cheers turned to groans. Contrary to all hopeful' rumors, said Kappel, A.T. & T. was not considering an immediate boost in the $3.30-per-share annual dividend. "The time since the dividend was last increased was very short-one year-and this is not a long enough period to tell us what we need to know about the future, which is very long indeed." A.T. & T. stock, which had hopped...
...Melbourne Herald headlined its story MENZIES PORTRAIT-A STORM. The Sydney Sunday Telegraph reprinted the entire cover story, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "That American TIME magazine has chosen Mr. Menzies for its cover portrait is a tribute to a great Australian statesman and a boost for Australia...
...Boost the number of operational Atlas ICBMs from 124 to 142 by the end of 1962, and speed production of train-borne, solid-fuel Minuteman ICBMs...
Easy credit, which has helped boost installment debt in the U.S. to a record $39.5 billion, is often mighty hard on the consumer. So a parade of witnesses have testified before a Senate Banking and Currency Subcommittee chaired by Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas. He and 17 other Senators are pushing a bill to require credit agencies to give buyers a complete list of financing costs to prevent lenders from cheating borrowers with exorbitant interest rates...