Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take two or three weeks longer to build than the average 55 days it now takes to slap together an old-style Liberty ship (though once in production shipyards may snap back to present building time). And it will take much larger and more powerful reciprocating engines to push a Liberty's speed up from the present 10 knots to 15. Besides, even 15 knots is no match for the 21-knot surface speed of some of the newer submarines...
...this headache hullabaloo have been spectacular in terms of sales: less than one year from scratch, Mejoral has recovered (on a yearly basis) some four-fifths of the 25-year-old aspirin market that Sydney Ross and Sterling International lost when the Cafiaspirina arrangement was canceled. But the Mejoral push has also been spectacular in terms of costs: close to $2,000,000 of hard Sterling cash went into Latin American advertising last year, using up perhaps 30% of its Good Neighbor gross. Other costs have skyrocketed too: e.g., 2,000 employes, many of them meticulously trained...
...loss of the Allies' most important central Tunisian base. If Rommel (variously reported wounded and nearly captured) widens his assault, he will seriously disrupt Allied communication lines. The decision might be delayed even beyond the first weeks of summer, the time now apparently set for victory and a push toward southern Europe...
...hour week or over because the Army and the Navy pay them to pay their workers overtime. On the other hand, most producers of consumer goods are working on a 40-hour week or less, because under frozen prices and material shortages there is no reason for them to push to higher levels. But such employers would willingly do the same work they are now doing with fewer men working longer hours if the 40-hour-week law were relaxed for the duration for most consumer industries and services. But so long as the law holds, business is given...
...pound class--Kuntze (C) pinned Reidy, push back...