Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stay Back. It was just the sort of thing the headstrong Iraqi like, and Kassem himself could use a boost to his sagging popularity. Since the attempt on his life, he no longer cruises about in his old Chevrolet station wagon; he now rides in a bulletproof ZIM. His public appearances are limited to ten minutes each, and no stranger is allowed within 20 yards of him. In Baghdad, for the first time, there is even an occasional wisecrack about...
...TURBINE HELICOPTERS, seating 25 passengers each, will be bought for $9,000,000 by New York Airways, with subsidy help that now runs $2,000,000 a year. Five of the twin-turbine Vertol 107 copters will start flying in spring of 1961, will boost line's annual capacity by 400% to 500,000 passengers...
...rates are already too high. "The only inflation we have today," says Patman, with more emotion than economic reason (see State of Business), "is inflation caused by high interest." The critics blame the Treasury for the rising cost of servicing the nation's debt, argue that any further boost in interest rates would cost the taxpayers additional billions. They argue that if the Treasury wants to sell long-term bonds, it has the power...
Against such adamant Democrats stand most economists and monetary experts, including such Democrats as House Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. The plain fact, as they are well aware, is that a boost in Treasury long-term rates is probably the most effective way of holding overall interest rates down. By borrowing exclusively in the short-term market, which is the area where business gets its money for temporary or seasonal needs such as carrying inventories or financing sales, the Treasury has sopped up much of the money normally available. The scramble for the remainder...
Died. Ivan Pavlovich Bardin, 76, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, onetime (1910-11) worker in U.S. steel mills, who directed the construction (1929-32) of the mammoth Kuznetsk steel plant as a key part of the first five-year plan, helped boost Russia's annual steel output from 4,000,000 tons before World War I to its present 60 million, played a large part in the development of Sputnik; in Moscow...