Word: boost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helped frame the Wagner Act. He worked his way onward & upward through the Housing agencies. He mastered the gobbledygook of economic language and the fast footwork needed for intramural debate. He learned to jump out from behind corners, making Keynesian faces at businessmen. In 1946, with a boost from Harry Truman, he landed on the newly constituted...
...Commission threw the once ubiquitous U.S. nickel for another fall. The commission told the New York Telephone Co. that it might raise its basic coin-box charge to 10?. The Rochester Telephone Corp. had already done it, New Jersey, California, Washington and Oregon companies had asked for the same boost...
Although U.S. teachers seem to be making a little financial progress, Manhattan's National Bureau of Economic Research reported this week, they are actually getting nowhere at all. Despite an average pay boost from $1,441 a year in 1940 to $2,750 in 1949, the public schoolman's salary is worth hardly a penny more in terms of buying power. College and university teachers, whose average salaries have gone up from $2,866 to $4,217 in the same period, N.B.E.C. found, are faring even worse; the new scale puts their standard of living right where...
...onto paper. With three Armstrong articles due for publication in the U.S., he was also pecking away at an autobiography. A sample of loose-jointed Armstrong prose (and his own weird punctuation), as free & easy as his New Orleans trumpet, tells how he gave a young Italian singer a boost on his European tour last year...
...market was getting its biggest boost from the reports of fat corporate earnings (see above), even though many stockholders complained that management was hanging on to too much cash and not passing out a big enough share of the profits in dividends. Nevertheless, the profit news itself was so good that the market kept edging up with determination. It closed the week by breaking all previous 1950 high marks for the third time in six days. At 217.03, the Dow-Jones industrial average was the highest it had been since Sept...