Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this fiscal year, Alaska is operating under a $27.7 million budget. For fiscal 1960-61, Governor Egan is asking for an increase of some $6,000,000, while increasing the revenue only some $1,050,000. The budget will get one big boost from a juicy windfall: $4,000,000 gained from the sale of 77,000 acres of tideland oil and gas leases last December. It will get another from the transitional fund voted by Congress to tide the 49th state over its early years; the 1960 portion will amount to $6,500,000. And what happens after...
Present plans call for the United States to boost its first Mercury astronaut into orbit in 1961 and to land instruments on the moon...
STEEL PRICE RISE is hinted by Chairman Roger Blough of U.S. Steel Corp. in denying reports that he promised Vice President Nixon to delay boost until after election. If it comes, rise will be less than the $8.50-a-ton increase in 1956. Blough figures new contract lifts employee costs by 3¾% v. 8% in 1956 pact, thus "the inflationary effect is half as great...
Republic won the boost with a red-hot aircraft that can do everything but salute. Described by former Tactical Air Command Chief O. P. Weyland as "the world's most powerful one-man airplane," Republic's Thunderchief will fly 2,000 miles without refueling, hit speeds of Mach 2-plus (1,400 m.p.h.), go high or low and deliver any kind of a bang the Air Force wants. As a tactical strike aircraft in support of ground troops, it can whisk in with rockets, a 20-mm. cannon that fires at the rate of 6,000 rounds...
...Algerian uprising has generally boosted DeGaulle's "stock" in metropolitan France at a time when such a boost was badly needed, Hoffmann declared...