Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Charles Tobey, Republican of New Hampshire, will receive a barrage of Liberal Union sponsored telegrams today demanding the retention of full rent controls. As the Chairman of the Senate Banking and Finance Committee, Senator Tobey is in a commanding position to push pending legislation for raising rent ceilings...
...square miles make it the world's largest island and stationary aircraft carrier. It would be as valuable as Alaska during the next few years, before bombers with a 10,000-mile range are in general use. It would be invaluable, in either conventional or push-button war, as an advance radar outpost. It would be a forward position for future rocket-launching sites. In peace or war it is the weather factory for northwest Europe, whose storms must be recorded as near the source as possible...
...Manhattan, poultry producers gathered to try to avert "chaos" in the industry. Reason: wholesale prices were down to 30? a pound, yet retail prices were still as high as when wholesalers got 50? a pound. Most poultry raisers feared that the high prices and slackened retail buying would soon push the bottom out of the market...
...sheer multiplication, the bacteria push oil particles off the grains of oilsand. They dissolve limestone, making the formation more porous. They generate carbon dioxide, which pushes oil particles ahead of it by gas pressure. The bacteria also produce a "detergent" (soaplike substance) which makes clinging oil films gather into free globules...
...quiet, the boarded-up ghost town had stirred in its creaking coffin-and emerged into a new life. In a three-day-long celebration, Aspen (pop. 1,500) marked its rebirth as a skiing center. Colorado's Governor Lee Knous gave Edith Robinson, daughter of Aspenjs mayor, a push off to open the is,000-ft. ski tow, longest in the world (see cut). With six 14,000-foot peaks near by, plenty of dry, powdery snow, and multi-million-dollar backing, Aspen was out to become the top winter-sport playground...