Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unglamorous blonde of the title is a pudding-faced little pretty (Hana Brejchová) housed with other unfortunates in a shoe-factory town where the girls outnumber the boys 16 to 1. To boost morale and expedite production, the factory manager gets some foot-slogging soldiers assigned to the area, most of them doggy, dumpy and married. The blonde succumbs by default to a callow young piano player (Vladimír Pucholt) who has all but forgotten her when she shows up, a week or so later, at his parents' apartment in Prague...
...after Germany's Aral, has been fighting for the top spot since last spring in a price-cutting war that may cost the companies $125 million in lost revenues this year. On the tire front, Goodyear will start building a $14 million factory this month near Heidelberg to boost its 7% share of the market and keep up with B.F. Goodrich, which is already working on a new $25 million plant. The two, along with Uniroyal and Firestone, are still far behind German-owned Continental, which accounts for well over 30% of all tire sales...
...inflationary pressures that are being generated by Viet Nam and domestic spending, the Administration should be working toward a budgetary surplus instead of a deficit. This would be the second, or braking, part of the New Economics, whose expansionary aspects set off the economic boom. Heller called for a boost in taxes to sop up surplus demand, added that "some pruning of low-priority expenditures will also be necessary." Said he: "Our economy is powerful enough to afford guns and butter. But it does not follow that we can afford guns...
...papers had expected to gain by joining forces to form a third agency, Chattanooga Publishing, which handled all business operations. Editorial staffs and editorial operations were entirely separate, but everyone was on the payroll of Chattanooga Publishing; expenses and income were split evenly. If the Times got an indirect boost because the Free Press boasted a larger circulation (63,418 to 55,615), the Free Press, on the other hand, accepted no liquor ads, yet shared the Times's earnings from all the liquor advertising in town...
...Stock Exchange opened with a Monday tinted blue: the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 13.53 points to 767.03, its lowest level since Jan. 2, 1964. Next day, Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr told a House committee that the Government "can't rely on monetary policy much more," must boost taxes or cut spending "if we have to do more" to curb the exuberant U.S. economy...