Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the boost would be for military-type aid, from this year's $1.3 billion to $2 billion next year. In the request for economic-type aid, totaling $2.2 billion, the Administration shifted from a buckshot to a bullet approach, aiming sizable funds at a few key areas: black Africa, free China and the Indus River development project for India and Pakistan, to be financed jointly by the U.S., the British Commonwealth and West Germany...
...heart of Justice's complaint was that Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and its affiliated companies had combined to boost prices shortly after Suez. Humble Oil & Refining Co., 88% owned by Jersey Standard, started the ball rolling, and most of the industry had quickly fallen into line...
...consult with subsidiaries on prices. Government lawyers contended that Hines Baker, then president of Humble Oil, talked with Standard of Jersey President Monroe J. Rathbone about a price hike in Louisiana in December 1956, that Rathbone reported the matter to Jersey's executive committee, and that an industrywide boost started soon after. The Government questioned Lion Oil Co. Vice President John E. Howell about a series of phone conversations with top oil-industry executives. Howell explained that the calls were about a duck hunt in Arkansas-not crude-oil prices. The Government also introduced a wire from Continental...
...EAST TOURIST BOOST will result from expanded jet service in 1960. Estimated 125,000 Americans, 15% more than last year, will travel beyond Hawaii to Far East and South Pacific, spend $130 million v. $117 million last year...
...pages she devotes to it, Historian Epton seems to feel that the 20th century is one of love's bear markets. Who killed Eros? Women did, by "becoming too much like men. Their curiosity value has declined." In compiling her Erostatistics, the author has done a lot to boost that curiosity value...