Word: boost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever Stam's exact words were, they gave the committee pause. Sentiment grew for a compromise bill that would combine a mild excess-profits tax with a slight boost in the regular rates on corporation income...
...present, the University "subsidizes" the Band, Glee Club, and Orchestra almost five hundred dollars every year. The new plan requires two thousand more annually from the Arts and Sciences fund. While this is a sizeable sum, the boost to undergraduates activities seems well worth...
...rise in many of the raw materials that go into steel has already added $4 a ton to the cost of steel. Said Fairless: "If the cost of making steel should rise 10% ... it would be inevitable, I think, that the price of steel should do likewise," i.e., a boost of about...
...benefit of the "misguided gentlemen [who] start shouting that a disastrous inflation will result" every time a steel increase is mentioned, Fairless said that the effects of a 10% boost would be "negligible." "It would add less than 4? to the price of a $22 automatic toaster; 60? to the price of a washing machine; $1.50 on an electric refrigerator . . . $17 on your new car; and $37 to the cost of a $10,000 home...
...involves conflicting with varsity contests and playing out of Cambridge when the varsity is away. The conflict problem arises mainly in scheduling prep schools which do not like to release their students for Friday games. But here a small amount of H.A.A. pressure on the schools could prove a boost to freshman morale. And when the varsity was at Princeton, the freshman played at Brown, leaving their followers behind and collecting another justifiable gripe...