Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provoked such far-out speculation as Lockheed's long-secret All. Since President Johnson gave the plane a sort of partial unveiling, it has been called "quasi-ballistic" and "suborbital"; it has been classed just below a Mercury capsule. Dopesters have fitted it with a rocket engine to boost it out of the atmosphere like the X-15 research plane...
WASHINGTON, March 17--President Johnson has urged Congress to vote for a federal pay raise bill -- even if its members have to postpone their own $10,000 boost...
Pennsylvania's Republican Governor William Scranton has been going about giving neat little "boost Pennsylvania industry" talks to audiences that often wanted to hear what he had to say about national politics. Last week Scranton changed his style. At a black-tie dinner of the Economic Club of New York, a nonpartisan organization, he uncorked a bitingly partisan speech that let the Democratic Party have it right between the wings. Most of the blue-chip audience of 1,400 went away convinced that they had just heard Scranton deliver the opening speech in a move toward the Republican presidential...
Disgruntled Urbanites. The strange thing about all the competition is that nobody seems to be getting hurt-least of all Hertz. Year after year Hertz revenues reach new records ($198 million last year from renting and leasing 62,800 cars and trucks). Avis helped boost its revenues 11% last year with its ad campaign, turned a 1962 loss of $3,000,000 into a $1,200,000 profit. National is also making steady gains. The budget renters are growing fastest of all. The largest of them, Chicago-based Budget Rent-A-Car System, has gone from $600,000 in revenues...
...Trigger. Prices naturally rise fastest in the most rapidly growing and most crowded areas: California, Florida, Arizona and metropolitan New York. In the East, prices get a boost from many suburban communities that resort to "snob zoning" to keep out the creeping city. Reasoning that an influx of families in matchbox homes would overload their schools with children, these communities have zoned all lots for one, two and three acres. "They're attempting birth control by zoning," says Royce...