Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commitment, the U.S. must increase the size of its armed forces, which numbered 2,653,861 on July 1. Pentagon spokesmen said that this number will be increased by some 330,000 within the next year. They hoped that all this could be accounted for by the boost in the monthly draft call-which has, in fact, already gone from a mere 3,000 last February, to 17,000 for September. For the present, the National Selective Service plans to continue drawing upon only unmarried men between the ages...
...second pioneering bill-a timely response to the growing big-city fear of "getting involved"-California also gave a boost to good Samaritans by offering to indemnify citizens who suffer injuries or damages while trying to prevent crimes or capture criminals. "Even if this bill does not persuade additional citizens to act in such cases," said Governor Brown, "it provides simple justice for those...
...hourly (or 4%) annual increase in wages and benefits, comparable to packages granted lately in the automobile, aluminum and can industries. Management, which contends that its annual productivity increase in the past six years has been only 2%, insists that it cannot grant more than a 2% boost without raising prices. It holds the line at 90 an hour...
Since John F. Kennedy in 1962 forced the nation's steelmen to pull back a $6-a-ton price boost, federal grand juries have voted seven indictments accusing the steel companies of conspiring to fix prices. In the most important of these cases, the Justice Department last week won a big, if qualified, victory...
...turned out, what the Senators needed was not a boost from Beelzebub but a whiff of good clean Midwestern air. Before the start of the 1961 season, they moved to the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and changed their name to the Twins. In four seasons, they have twice finished in the first division, a feat they had accomplished only 20 times in 60 years in Washington. And never have they been hotter than now. They have won nine of their last twelve games, including three out of four with those damn and now doomed Yankees, and at week...