Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual convention (see p. 18), C.I.O. resolved: the hell with Little Steel. President Phil Murray's 900,000 steelworkers started a big push this week for 15?-an-hour increases. Other big C.I.O. unions will follow...
...Angeles, a television and wirephoto wizard named Leroy J. Leishman (he thought up push-button radio tuning) has perfected a stereo-fluoroscope which gives a three-dimensional view of the body's interior. With the Leishman device, a surgeon can look into a wounded soldier, twiddle some knobs until he sees what he is looking for, insert a slim, sterilized needle straight to an embedded bullet or shell fragment. Later the metal can be removed cleanly without extra probing and blood loss, simply by following the needle. In fracture cases, the surgeon can watch the bones slip into place...
Politically, Argentina was in turmoil. New internal lines were forming. On the one side: the extreme nationalists, weak in numbers, strong in Army and police support, controlling the Government, determined to push an antiSemitic, antilabor, anti-liberal domestic program. On the opposing side: practically all other Argentines, including disgruntled Navy and Army officers; wealthy landowners and industrialists who dislike the Ramirez Government's rent and price controls; labor unions, whose leaders have been arrested wholesale; students and liberals, who are alarmed over the suppression of civil rights...
Left of the lobby a wealth of medieval manuscripts fill a well lit, spacious Exhibition Room, so arranged as to illustrate the spread of printing across Europe. On the other side of the Lobby is the Reading Room, open only to students, but a push button at the librarian's desk can shut the bridge off from ineligibles. Behind the librarian a book elevator goes down to the stacks...
...citizens hear lesser matters, too, from five microphones slung above the House's black-leather settees-an occasional barroom pun, laments upon a Representative's hangover, etc. The Speaker of the House censors all speeches for military security with a push button at his right hand. Orators can tell how they are doing by watching the colored lights above his desk. Red means "fine." White means the mike is dead...