Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy will bring increased payments for the overhead expenses of medical research projects financed by grants from the Public Health Service and the National Science Foundation. It will thus immediately ease the budgets of the many medical schools that receive these grants. In addition, the policy will probably spur private foundations to make similar increases in the grant-payments that they issue to research institutions, Cutler said...
...Spur the Soviets. Murray did not succeed, however, in persuading his four fellow members of the AEC that this biggest show on earth would be worthwhile. Commissioners Lewis Strauss, Willard Libby, John von Neumann and Harold Vance formally replied: "It should be noted that Russian and other foreign observers were invited to the tests at Bikini in 1946, where they witnessed atomic explosions of previously unimaginable destructive force. This demonstration, however, did not persuade the Soviet government of the need to join with us and other nations in an effective system for the international control of atomic energy...
...revenue of $35 million-enough to pay off the bonds by 1972, a good 20 years ahead of time. However, as in Pennsylvania, the turnpike revenue will probably be plowed back into more toll roads across Ohio. Two more pay-as-you-go projects are coming up next: a spur from Cleveland, connecting with the New York Thruway at Erie, Pa., and a major lateral across the state toward Cincinnati and St. Louis...
Trans-Canada planned originally to run a spur line from Winnipeg south to rich U.S. markets, but this proposal was vetoed by the Canadian government, which as a matter of national pride wanted the company to build the line across Canada to Toronto and Montreal before shipping any gas to the U.S. Because much of the route would be through thinly populated areas where there are no cash customers for gas, potential investors objected that Trans-Canada would have no income while the line was being built and, even after it was completed, would still have to develop its eastern...
...Trash & Trivia." But the formula got out of hand. The biggest spur was economic. With little newsprint available, the popular press used what space it had to the best advantage, i.e., to lure readers. Since advertisers had to wait in line to get into the tightly rationed dailies, editors knew that the only way to boost revenue was to boost circulation...