Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This prosperity has brought trouble. With a fat slice of their business going into private lockers, the big packers and canners started an all-out push to head off the newcomer. When war started WPB slapped a pile of restrictions on food-locker plants and equipment, forced prospective builders through at least six different agencies before they even sniffed a priority. Then out of nowhere came the rumor: food lockers were to blame for the meat shortage. Even the industry fell down: WPB ordered locker manufacturers to stop chiseling on steel...
Much depends on U.S. policy. If the U.S. tries to push exports unduly, without importing, through further devaluation of the dollar or by forcing inequitable exchange rates on other nations, she could obstruct the flow of world trade. The U.S. might likewise wreck world trade by raising tariffs or killing reciprocal trade agreements. And only by contributing to world stability can the U.S. avoid the flight of "hot money" capital from country to country such as occurred in the '30s, as war clouds gathered. It was this more than anything else which disorganized the exchanges, and gorged...
...Possibly he [the enemy] will make further and desperate efforts, but I know that the troops of our field armies will, with the continued effective support of our naval and air forces, inexorably push him back to the sea and destruction...
...Russian objective on this front apparently was to push the Germans back from their springboards before Moscow and the great system of rail, highway and water communications which radiates from the capital. The eventual importance of this drive depended more on German plans than on the immediate scale of the Russian attacks. If the Wehrmacht hoped to strike again at Moscow and central Russia this year, the Red Army's gain and the German loss were enormous. If the Germans had already abandoned such hopes, and intended only to hold some tenable line in central Russia, the successive losses...
After the war a single telegraph company, enjoying a monopoly's operating savings, should be able to give single-minded attention to putting up a real fight for more-and more profitable-business. Both companies have important technological improvements which they have been slow to push, pending a settlement of their competitive (and labor) problems. Meanwhile the release of some of the two companies' duplicating equipment could advance the war effort. If all their parallel wires were torn down, for example, it might release as much as 10,000 tons of badly needed copper...