Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shared by most of their congressional co'leagues. With constituents' mail all but unanimously opposed to President Johnson's proposed 10% surcharge on corporate and personal income taxes, Capitol Hill was loudly unconvinced of the Administration's economic and political sagacity in seeking a tax boost this fall...
...support of their forecast, the Administration advocates invoked statistics -conveniently issued by the Commerce Department last week-showing a $9 billion (to $627.1 billion) increase in Americans' personal income during June and July. The tax boost, they argued, would cost three out of four families between $2.50 and $9.25 a month, while the fourth, earning more than $10,000 a year, would pay more...
Mills's committee will continue its hearings until the Labor Day recess, then withdraw into executive session to decide whether, politically as well as economically, the time and the season are right for a tax boost. The bill that emerges will probably call for an increase of at most 6%, far less than the President now deems necessary but the very amount that he prescribed in his budget message last January...
...heart's main pumping chamber, was too badly damaged to snap back spontaneously. Six hours after the patient reached the hospital, she was in shock-blue in the face and in a cold sweat. Doctors at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center wanted to give her circulation a boost, at least for a few hours. If her heart could be relieved of its work load, and at the same time strengthened by an increased flow of blood through its own coronary arteries, it might regain enough power to carry on by itself. But how to give it that boost...
...refused to let him draw with his drawing board turned upside down. A cartoon of egg-nog-drinking turtles that he sold to Judge magazine in 1927 financed his marriage to fellow Oxford Student Helen Palmer, who helps him develop his story lines. His career got a big boost when his advertising cartoons for an insecticide made the caption "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" a common household quip. He was a cartoonist for the New York daily PM, created the prizewinning "Gerald McBoing-Boing" movie cartoons, and has completed a book of original songs for children...