Word: boost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glad to see your Jan. 5 cover showing Charles de Gaulle as "Man of the Year." No other person has or will change history as he did during 1958. France will soon boost her economy again owing to the new change in the value of the franc. The entire world owes your man of the year a great deal...
...defense budget comes to $40.9 billion, an increase of one-fourth of 1% over this year, not enough to cover price up-creep. A 12% boost in research and development funds is balanced by a 15% cut in military construction outlays. Procurement outgo stays about the same, $14 billion, with no money for Air Force interceptors or phased-out missiles such as the Navy's Regulus II, more money for newer missiles. The Air Force's missile-of-the-future, the solid-fuel Minuteman, is scheduled for a 40% increase to $270 million. Within the defense budget...
...FARE BOOST is approved by CAB. On flights due to start next week between New York and Los Angeles, American Airlines will charge $194 (counting tax) first class, v. $183 on piston planes. CAB is studying increases on tourist fares...
...read, two Democrats occupying key positions in the Senate and House housing subcommittees, Senator John Sparkman and Congressman Albert Rains of Alabama, last week introduced housing bills that would go further than the Administration wants toward stepping up federal aid. The Rains bill, for example, would continue public housing, boost federal subsidies in slum clearance from the Administration's proposed $250 million to $500 million, throw another $500 million into the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") for mortgage purchasing, and make it easier to buy houses by slashing mortgage down-payment requirements while stretching out mortgage repayments...
Such damaging competition would of course raise no objection if waged on a purely private basis. This, however, is a case of state aid being used to boost one private organization at the expense of another. If the Commonwealth is to delegate broad responsibility to a group such as MeBAC, it should make certain that no one theatrical company is given a monopoly on its board such as the Cambridge Drama Festival now holds. This would not only dispel the charges of unfairness that now jeopardize the Arts Center project, but the valuable theatrical experience of a boader range...