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...could raise taxes, which Harry Truman seems to want to do, while some of his advisers caution against it. A boost in taxes, they argue, would be bad in a political year like 1950; besides it might dangerously jiggle the prosperous but sensitive economy...
Lloyd B. Carswell, general manager of the Copley-Plaza, asserted, that a crack Crimson eleven is a "big boost to the hotel business" and that the Copley would give players an edge over other job applicants...
Split Proceeds. In Spokane, the gunman who robbed Lyle Swenson, and failed to get away in a stalled car, offered to give part of the money back if Swenson would give the car a boost...
...that it will take a large measure of political union as well. EGA also realizes that the objective cannot be reached in a few years, and certainly not by 1952, when Marshall Plan aid to Europe ends. But EGA believes that nothing short of full economic integration can boost Western Europe's industrial output enough to end its dependence...
...emphasize better preparation for a man's first job. After all, Business School education, intensive as it may be, is developing the "able business administrator," not the salesman or assistant buyer. But while the corporation training programs can and do give non-Business School graduates a bit of a boost at the start, Harvard education can pay off at promotion time. Surveys have shown that the Business School man, even without the training in routines, isn't at all slow in adjusting himself to his first job, thanks to his indirect study of business as a whole...