Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construction industry stands to be the biggest beneficiary of the windfall, though the actual spending will be sufficiently spread out so that no sudden spurt in jobs or contracts is likely. But thousands of other businesses are already getting a boost from local and state expenditures, which are climbing fast and have now passed the $80 billion-a-year mark. While federal tax revenues have risen 42% to $89.4 bil lion a year since 1953, state and local revenues have spiraled 134% to $49 billion-frequently distressing both the individuals and the corporations who have...
Disingenuously, perhaps, many influential Indians argue now that membership in the nuclear club would increase their stature in the eyes of the world. Frank Moraes. astute editor of The Indian Express, reasons that an Indian bomb "would be a moral boost not only for this country but for all the free countries of Asia." And to underline Moraes' contention. The Statesman observed that "only a few weeks ago Ceylon protested against the presence of nuclear-armed...
Jamaica's galloping birth rate (40 per 1,000 v. 22 per 1,000 in the U.S.) will boost the Connecticut-sized island's population 18% to nearly 2,000,000 by 1970. Emigration to Britain, formerly Jamaica's main outlet, has been cut off, which means more food, more jobs must be found. As matters stand, Jamaica cannot feed even its present population, has spent some $30 million to import food in the first six months this year...
...that the atomic test, coupled with the dismissal of Soviet Premier Khrushchev Thursday, has given a large boost to Chinese prestige...
...Yanks broke it open in the sixth on back-to-back homers by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Two innings later Pepitone's grand slam helped the Yanks boost the score...