Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some, but surprisingly little, of the $87 increase since 1952 has been due to rising costs (mainly for hospital services, up 34%). Most of the boost is due, said the foundation, to the fact that many families are using more-and more expensive-medical services...
When the Justice Department's trustbusters got an indictment against 29 major U.S. oil companies in 1958, charging a criminal conspiracy to boost oil prices after the Suez crisis, predictions were free that the trial would last six months or more. But last week, in Tulsa, Okla., after a trial of barely ten days, Federal Judge Royce H. Savage acquitted the companies. Said Judge Savage: "I have an absolute conviction that the defendants are not guilty...
...such probability was that the steel strike would be followed by a big rush of businessmen to rebuild inventories that would further squeeze credit, boost interest rates and perhaps nip the boom. But the Commerce Department announced last week that the inventory total in the fourth quarter remained about level. Though there was a December spurt in inventories, it was not as big as expected. The Commerce Department now expects that inventories will accumulate by the end of the second quarter at an $8 billion rather than a $10 billion rate, thus spreading out buying and making growth more steady...
...personal incomes relative to the number of schoolchildren." In 1957-58, for example, eleven mainly Southern states with 22% of U.S. public school pupils spent less for education than 80% of the national average. To climb even to this level would have required a stiff (and "unlikely") spending boost, from 13% in Maine to 63% in Mississippi...
...prime example of Reeves's hard-sell tactics, which have helped boost the agency's billings from $4,900,000 to $120 million in his 19 years at Bates. These tactics have also inspired the FTC to fire off more complaints against Bates than other agencies. Among its accounts that have also been named by the FTC: Life cigarettes, Rolaids, Carter's Little "Liver" Pills. What miffed Reeves most was that until two months ago, the FTC had usually tipped him and the advertiser that a complaint was coming, given them a chance to argue their case...