Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Governor of North Carolina who once showed his salesmanship by posing in his underwear to promote his state's textile industry, was in John Kennedy's original Cabinet, made his most notable mark as Commerce Secretary by launching an export expansion program that helped boost U.S. exports from an annual $19.6 billion in 1960 to $25 billion now. But when he was first appointed, Hodges told friends that he would quit after four years. Last week he did-and Drug Executive Connor seemed to fit perfectly the presidential prescription for a replacement...
...announced that it is ready to try again with $453 million, a package that makes Brazil the greatest U.S. economic-aid beneficiary of any nation except Pakistan and India. With the addition of expected funds from international agencies and private capital, Castello Branco will be getting a 1965 boost totaling $1 billion...
...usual, there were both winners and losers even in a good year. Ford's highly successful Mustang, a quarter of a million of which have been sold since its introduction in April, helped boost the company's sales 9.6% and increase its share of the market from 25.6% to 27.8%. G.M.'s Chevrolet Division, the industry leader, which sold nearly a third of all U.S. cars a few years ago, actually suffered a 5% decline in sales, dropping to 28% of the market. Sales at American Motors, the compact company that has failed to share in Detroit...
Conventional housing's big new competitor has fattened so fast largely because factory-built mobile homes escape such hobbles as archaic distribution of materials, costly on-site construction and building and zoning codes, all of which boost the cost of traditional housing. Today's typical mobile home, a 550-sq.-ft. unit with two bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen-dinette and living room, sells fully furnished for $5,600 on such terms as 20% down and $70 a month for seven years...
...billion, almost equivalent to the gold reserves of the entire sterling bloc (see charts}. Theoretically, few economists quarreled with Wilson's first, stringent measures to close the gap: a "temporary" 15% tax on virtually all imports reaching Britain, plus tax incentives for British industrialists who boost exports. Practically, however, Wilson could hardly have acted more ineptly...