Word: boost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the civilization of antiquity bequeathed to the cultivators of the island's food crops. U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Gluck called on Washington for emergency help. Flocks of helicopters from the aircraft carrier Princeton dropped food that saved the lives of hundreds and, incidentally, gave the U.S. a needed boost in popular esteem...
...without fee ("More paddlings like that would help to keep down our prison population"), and 40 members of the Cuvier Press Club sent her an orchid corsage with a note saying, "We salute you!" Finally, the day before her case came up in court. Teacher Graner got the biggest boost of all. Her entire class. Roscoe included, chipped in nickels and dimes to throw a "good luck" party to wish her well. Snorted Judge Frank Gusweiler, who dismissed the case last week: "It's unfortunate that a member of the teaching profession is subjected to this prosecution. This young...
...powerful as the ones that launched the Russian Sputniks, or as military rockets-Atlas, Thor, etc.-now being tested in the U.S. Dr. Jack E. Froelich of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that the Army's Jupiter rocket (not to be confused with the Jupiter-C) could boost a much bigger satellite into an orbit, or even send it around the moon...
...retailers hardly care what version the sack comes in or what it's called. With the dress business down, they only hope it stays. "We're glad for controversy," said a Seattle buyer. "It's a tremendous boost for business...
...than it exported in 1957. Without the imports, U.S. production would have been close to consumption. But the copper producers themselves have done no campaigning so far for a tariff increase. While Phelps Dodge and Magma, which now mine only in the U.S., stand to benefit from a tariff boost, international miners such as Kennecott and Anaconda are in a different position. Their domestic mines would profit, but it would be at the expense of their Chilean operations, which produce 66% of Anaconda's copper and 32% of Kennecott...