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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was not the full measure of grey-mustached Mr. Knudsen's woe. Well he knew that the present strikes were only dress rehearsals, a sort of summer barn theatre tryout of C. I. O.'s big autumn push, when the great mass of production workers (not now affected) will make sweeping new contract demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dress Rehearsal | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...idea of life on Mars got a big push in 1877 when the Italian Astronomer Schiaparelli* first pictured the vague markings called "canals." Schiaparelli actually called them canali, which means "channels," but was translated "canals." Rivers cut channels, but canals are built by intelligent agents. In the U. S., Astronomer Percival Lowell picked up the canal idea with enthusiasm, claimed he could see them clearly. His theory: the canals were built to bring water from the melting ice of the polar caps, by Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond Earth | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

When dressy, horsy Grover Aloysius Whalen unveiled his $157,000,000 New York World's Fair last April, he figured that out-of-town customers would be storming its gates by July 1. Instead of a Big Push he got an attendance so low that he was moved fortnight ago to start making reduced rates (reduced parking fees, bargain admissions for large groups) to fairgoers. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Customers Wanted | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Straus stressed that all USHA work goes to private contractors. It is thus at the mercy of whatever restrictive influences may be exerted on Housing by makers and distributors of materials, by building contractors, by building trades unions. It was to clear the road for a big industrial push behind Housing that the Temporary National Economic ("Monopoly") Committee held hearings all last fortnight to search for such restrictive influences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Big Push | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...private capital, say the New Dealers, will stand to benefit if behind the whole Housing push is put another force, which Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold announced last fortnight, amplified last week. This force is to be "the greatest trust-busting drive ever attempted." Simultaneously on a score of fronts, the Department of Justice will presently crack down on all manner of building-restrainers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Big Push | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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