Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commodities to enjoy the boom. Though little affected by drought except in the Southeast, cotton soared above 13½? per lb. The year's low was about 10?, and in cotton a 1? change means at least $50,000,000 to the South. What gave cotton its big push last week was a government report estimating the total planting on July 1 at 30,600,000 acres. Though that was a gain over last year's unusually small acreage, it was still 26% below the old-time average. Meantime world cotton consumption has climbed to new records...
Just above the restricted class are so-called "borderline" accounts, in which margin is 55% to 60%. Their trading rights are not restricted, but excess margin is so small that another purchase of any size would push them below the 55% mark. Reported in this danger zone were 11% of all accounts, 12% of all margined securities...
Nurses want to work eight-hour shifts instead of tradition's twelve hours but have not dared to push their campaign too hard on account of Depression. They hope to have wages standardized, according to the kind of nursing and the community, at $4 to $7 for an eight-hour day; $5 to $8 for ten hours; $6 to $9 for twelve hours...
...this was that, at 53, Roy Howard was about to become that rare specimen, a U. S. executive who, instead of continuing along a channel of activity into which he has permitted circumstances to push him, insists on his right to climb out and do the job for which he is best fitted and likes most. "I have never been one of those gifted birds who could sit back and say: 'All right boys, go get 'em!'" complains Roy Howard. "I have to say: 'All right boys...
...where Author Maugham himself functioned as a Wartime spy. Detailed, with the assistance of a gruesome character known as the "Hairless Mexican" (Peter Lorre), to track down a German agent en route to Arabia, Ashenden proceeds with more pluck than perspicacity. Nonetheless, having inadvertently permitted the Hairless Mexican to push a harmless tourist (Percy Marmont) over a cliff, Ashenden and a beautiful blonde English spy (Madeleine Carroll) finally discharge their mission with the help of bombing planes...