Word: boost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housing boom got another $4 billion boost in new credit last week. Congress passed the housing bill, sent it to the President, who is expected to sign...
...News story gave the flying-saucers-are-real thesis a big boost. It was put out over the air last week by ABC's Henry J. Taylor and ("for what it's worth") by Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr.; it was the subject of a documentary, neither pro nor con, by CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Columnist Robert Ruark declared that "I believe . . ." Henry Holt announced a "serious" book on flying saucers by Variety's Columnist Frank Scully. The Herald Trib, pooh-poohing the U.S. News article, concluded: "And yet-And yet there is something...
Capped Prices? Opponents of the bill, notably Illinois Senator Paul H. Douglas, argued that the lack of regulation would send gas prices soaring and boost consumers' bills $100 million a year. In answer, oilmen pointed to the record. In the last ten years the price of gas in the field has risen, in some cases quintupled (the price had been so low ten years ago that gas had virtually been given away). Yet the average price of natural gas to residential users had dropped from 70.9¢ per 1,000 cubic feet...
...well aware, he said, of the danger of breaking the nation's economic back by spending too much for defense, thus "playing exactly into the hands of the enemy." But he did think the nation could boost its military budget $500 million in the interests of keeping the cutting edge fairly sharp...
Flirting With a Bogy. Some of the best Soviet advertising appears in the LIFE-like magazine Ogonek, which uses U.S.-style layouts. Many Ogonek ads are similar to U.S. wartime institutional advertising, i.e., they boost goods not pres ently available. Other Ogonek displays feature the Mikoyan Meat Trust and that old Russian delicacy, caviar (see cut). Price: only 40 rubles...