Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charity; that must come locally. Federal public works were admittedly only a "drop in the bucket" of U. S. construction. For psychological purposes though, the White House kept them to the fore as an example to states & cities. Also the President continued to jack up Industry with requests to push its heavy construction, stagger its employment, maintain its wages...
...Toledo, Clarence Kehr Jr., 6, standing 4 ft. I in., weighing 87 lb., was barred from both public and Catholic schools because he has a bass voice, smokes, has to shave, is as strong as a grown man. He can lift persons bulking 250 lb., 200-lb. dumbbells, can push without strain a lawn roller, or an automobile filled with passengers. Prime stunt: lifting Jack Dempsey when Dempsey scaled 202 lb. Born normal, Clarence Jr. continued so until 9 mos. old. Between 9 mos. and 3½ years he grew ten years physically in all things except height. When...
Throughout its existence the business school has been forced to push ahead into regions previously unexplored. This pioneering, which has been so ably carried out, has brought into being implements of precision and tried value with which business method can be taught. The process is by no means at an end, and its vigorous pursuance is a matter of greatest import to the economic world...
...were the Trade Commission's records of investigations into chain stores, newsprint, power companies, cottonseed, peanuts. Replacement of some of the data from outside sources was possible, though slow and difficult. The destruction of "Tempo No. 4" gave President Hoover a new and concrete argument with which to push his building expansion program...
Significance. The final push that sent the bankers over seemed, of course, to have been the new elevation of the U. S. tariff (see p. 18). In England, however, domestic political implications loomed as large as the international economic significance. The doughty "Hearsts of England," Viscount Rothermere and Baron Beaverbrook, who received such a flaying fortnight ago from Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin (TIME, July 7), have been advocating for months precisely this program now advocated by Britain's banks. They have been calling it "Empire Free Trade" (TIME...