Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican prospects, whereas two months earlier he trailed them all. Most Democratic leaders believe that the G.O.P.'s strongest candidate would be Nelson Rockefeller, but that the party will not nominate him. If Nixon gets the nod, which now seems likely, they think that will be a boost for Johnson...
...come the world's No. 1 shipbuilder, a title that eluded it last year when another Japanese firm, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, topped IHI's 1,600,000-gross-ton production by almost 100,000 tons. By absorbing Kure, a smaller shipbuilder near Hiroshima, next April, IHI will boost launchings to over 1,800,000 tons. Total sales for the fiscal year 1967 are estimated at $530 million, up from $484 million in fiscal 1966. Only about half is brought in by the ships; the rest comes from a wide range of heavy machinery, from cranes and boilers...
...subcommittee also proposed that all juniors and seniors have their own bedrooms. Mather House will be used to deconvert existing suites where these conditions are not met. The tenth house will not be used to boost substantially the number of undergraduates...
...with hearing everyone complain about Britain's ailing economy, five pert and miniskirted typists at a factory in Surrey decided to do something about it. To help boost productivity and hold costs down, the girls-Valerie White, 21, Joan Southwell, 20, Christine French, 17, Carol Ann Fry, 16, and Brenda Mumford, 15-volunteered to work 30 minutes extra a day without any additional pay. In most countries such a gesture would have attracted scant attention. In Britain, whose economic difficulties stem as much as anything from an "I'm all right, Jack" attitude among its workers, the girls...
Whether the Boost Britain drive would make any serious inroads into the country's work habits was doubtful. The British laborer's lackadaisical attitude toward work is deeply ingrained. Though New Year's Day is not a holiday in Britain, fully one-half of the workers in many areas stayed home. And, in a country-by-country poll of attitudes toward world problems, the British put the establishment of a 30-hour week as a goal second only to finding a cure for cancer...