Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly enforced) next September. He also gave illness (arthritis) as a reason for his resignation. There have been rumors of a rift in the Woolworth management for some time. Last year Mr. Parson made many an optimistic statement regarding the company at the time a pool was trying to push the stock. The new ruler of 2,430 stores in five countries started in the Woolworth Poughkeepsie store as a small boy, formed the British subsidiary in 1908. He is especially gifted in merchandising (Mr. Parson's talent was financial), has been in charge of the new 20? department...
...time is during some future European war. Scientific murder is perfected now. Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce. Beneath this pall the long entrenched lines, locked together, writhe and push. Should the westerly line crack, the alien hordes will roar through, flood the lands beyond with death or with their super-mechanized civilization worse than death...
...Memorial Day an ill-tempered Senate celebrated by lashing the Sales Tax movement to its knees. Senator Harrison paraded on the floor the list of 55 Senators vowing to vote Nay. Desperately supporters of the tax bill lay about them right & left, seizing upon various excises to help push the total of the bill nearer the balancing figure, among them taxes on stock & bond transfers, limitations on income tax deductions...
...Bronx, when Officer Pierce Glynn ordered him to move his pushcart, Phil Cohen, cherry peddler, refused. Officer Glynn arrested Peddler Cohen, ordered him to push his cart to the police station. Peddler Cohen flatly refused. Sweating Officer Glynn trudged the pushcart to the police station. Peddler Cohen marching by his side blithely chanting: "Chay-reeeees! fresh chay-reeeees...
...Milwaukee, John Roback, tippler, took off his shoes, pushed his automobile down the street. Interrogated by Officer Tewes, he explained: "I'm in no shape to drive this thing. I thought it would be safer for traffic if I'd push it. I took off my shoes to keep my footsteps from bothering people...