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...final round of the tournament last night, Boston College gave Crimson N.C.A.A. hopes a boost by edging B.U., 5-4, in sudden-death overtime. The win put the Eagles in an open race with B.U. and the varsity for one of the two Eastern N.C.A.A. selections...
...boost [Jan. 21] he may well...
...cross winds and keeps track of the airplane's heading during all parts of the flight. This informa tion, combined automatically by a computer, tells the pilot continuously where he is, and as a kind of extra feature, the clever "66" helps him find the fastest wind to boost him to his destination...
Barely twelve months ago Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. announced plans for a $120 million aluminum plant at Buckhill Bottom, 20 miles from Wheeling, W. Va.; soon afterward it joined forces with Revere Copper & Brass to boost the ante to $304 million. In quick succession the Pennsylvania Railroad spent $4,000,000 building twelve miles of spur track to the plant site, and M. A. Hanna Coal Co. started work on a big new mine to provide coal for Ohio Power Co.'s expanding plant at Cresap, W. Va., which in turn contracted to supply power for the new aluminum works...
...their campaign to boost savings, U.S. bankers no longer aim their pitch solely at the head of the household, but go after the entire family. The Bank of America scrambles so eagerly after children's accounts that it even sends messengers around to schools to collect the youngsters' pennies, has 1,000,000 children's accounts totaling $25 million. Other banks are learning the same lesson. New York's Dollar Savings Bank has discovered that juvenile savers not only increase its immediate funds but that 75% of them keep their accounts into adulthood. Every banker is doing his best...