Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many steelmakers now offer discounts from their just-boosted prices in an effort to keep big customers from turning to foreign suppliers. But prices are still climbing for just about every other kind of product and service, in large part because of wage settlements that averaged nearly 7% during the first half of this year. In an election year, Washington's reaction is to criticize business, and reprove labor gently if at all. Last week the Administration denounced Chrysler Corp. for announcing a price boost on its 1969 models (see following story); the Government barely mentioned the increase...
Died. Kay Francis, 63, one of Hollywood's leading ladies in the 1930s and early '40s; of cancer; in Manhattan. Talking movies were still in their infancy in 1929 when Kay, already established on Broadway, gave the industry a boost by bringing beauty, elegance and warmth to some 50 films (One Way Passage, Trouble in Paradise, I Found Stella Parrish...
...Apollo program has also received a boost from scientists at the Jet Pro pulsion Laboratory, who recently discovered the cause of unexpected variations in the altitude and speed of earlier unmanned lunar orbiters. Such flight deviations, which could drop a module several miles off target, were caused by local increases in lunar gravity brought about by areas of dense material beneath the five circular maria, or "seas." The concentrations of mass, called "mascons," may have been caused by the impact of large meteors, which generated enough heat to melt material below the surface of the moon and form regions...
...turned to "the only policy imaginable" - swift economic expansion. In keeping with that goal, the French Cabinet last week unveiled a 1969 budget that calls for an 11% increase in government spending, to $30 billion. While creating a deficit of about $2.5 billion, such outlays are expected to help boost French industrial production by 7% next year, enabling the French economy to achieve a substantial 5½% to 6% growth...
...during the last half of this year. It is relying on what one Finance Ministry official calls "a battery of tools to regulate prices without actually enforcing price controls." Under the French contrat de programme, for example, thousands of industrial and retail firms have signed agreements not to boost prices beyond the government-specified 3%. Even so, some price gains have already overtaken the wage increases. The cost of draft beer has risen 10% in Paris, a loaf of bread now costs 120 instead of 100 (a 20% jump), and many restaurants have increased the price of a $1.40 meal...