Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Temporarily, at least, the military meridian which U.S. strategists had sought to push eastward across the Atlantic was rectified in midocean. But far to the south, it bent eastward: the little ash-heap of Ascension, whose importance was not realized until midway in the war, was under British sovereignty, and the British would be reasonable. Nearer home, the chain of Western Hemisphere bases from Newfoundland to British Guiana, obtained in the destroyer deal of 1940, was secure for 93 more years...
...already fed up with high prices and poor quality. From California came hints of a buyers' strike in real estate. A Los Angeles dealer reported that his volume had "fallen off 75% in the last 60 days." On the heels of the labor strikes, which had helped push prices up by raising wages and curtailing production, a general buyers' strike might well be in the making. A short one might be a good thing. A long one would end all Washington's worries about the boom. In that case, Washington could concentrate on the bust...
...taken the U.S. a long time to realize that hunger and history worked together, and that a Communist victory in France would push the Western world's frontier with Russia back from the Elbe to the Atlantic...
...Britons whose statesmanship had produced the plan for India-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps, A. V. Alexander, Lord Wavell-were determined to push through a solution. Their able spokesman, aging Pethick-Lawrence (74), told correspondents: "What will happen if one person ... or groups of people in some way tried to put spanners [monkey wrenches] in the wheels, I am not prepared at this stage precisely to say; but the intention is to get on with...
Fires at the Asheville encampment burned feebly in comparison with the torches of C.I.O. No special funds had been appropriated for the A.F. of L.'s push for 1,000,000 new recruits. No new organizers would be hired. The cadre of A.F. of L.'s new legions would be built around platoons now in the field: building-trades locals, truckers, printers, longshoremen, tobacco workers...