Word: boosts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Boston's month-old newspaper strike sputtered out last week. During a 14-hour negotiating session with the unions, the publishers offered a fresh proposal on the controversial pension plan and gave hints of a wage boost as well...
...shadows begin to lengthen on her lawn and the commercials for virile laundry detergents (Boost!, Blast!, Fist!, Kick!, Sneer!, Guts!) ricochet around the homemaker's uncleaned living room, sloth can easily be accounted for. As for wrath, that depends. Will she one day wax wroth when she suddenly realizes how many sunlit hours have been spent before the tube? Will she rise and turn off the set? Or is she trapped forever in the flickering world of vicarious fun and games, scandal and sex? Tune out tomorrow...
Death & the Elephant. Based on a 19th century lottery to boost attendance at the Rio zoo, the animal game is no ordinary numbers racket. It starts off with 25 animals, each of which is assigned four consecutive numbers (from 01-04 for the ostrich to 97-00 for the cow). Odds for a straight animal bet are 20 to 1, but few bettors stop there. They can get 70 to 1 for guessing the last two figures of the winning number, 700 to 1 for the last three figures, 6,000 to 1 for getting all four figures right. They...
Viva Maria! looks like a Hollywood comic western, the sort the studios describe as "rollicking round-ups," or "madcap hi-jinx with the men who made the West." This means a screen as wide as the Oregon Trail, technically superb Technicolor, expensive cranes to boost its enormous cameras anywhere they want to go, and in general everything that the little men with the big checks...
Stocks v. Bonds. Money is costlier to borrow now than it has ever been since the Depression, and the effects of that phenomenon on the market are tremendous. A promising market rally last week fell flat after Morgan Guaranty President Thomas Gates announced a boost in the prime rate to an alltime high of 5½% . That announcement hit at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, and by closing time at 3:30 the New York Stock Exchange floor was still a scene of frantic selling activity. Within little more than an hour after Morgan Guaranty's pattern...