Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reversing the Trend. Fortnight ago, surveying his troops before the battle, G.O.P. Leader Charles Halleck knew he was in trouble in his effort to push across the Landrum-Griffin bill. Although his friend and coalition ally, Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, assured him that Southern conservatives were lined up solidly behind the bill, Halleck found that some 20 of his own Republicans, all from industrial areas, were prepared to go over the hill, vote for one of the weaker bills. Moreover, the trend was against Halleck: his rasping, hard-driving methods had caused resentment among the G.O.P. rank and file...
AMONG the celebrated breed of risk capitalists who push out the frontiers of U.S. industry, probably the most daring and successful...
...life in a country where a dedicated Communist (Premier Gomulka) collaborates with a dedicated Catholic (Cardinal Wyszynski) to check both hothead Marxists and anti-Marxists. The result, reports Gibney, can sometimes be as bewildering as that wondrous two-headed animal of Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories, the "Push-me Pull...
...reached $5.2 billion, up 3% from June and 14% from July a year ago. Total work put in place in the first seven months of 1959 was $30.1 billion, 15% ahead of the same period last year. Outlays for new private building in July rose to $3.6 billion to push the seven-month total 16% ahead of a year ago. Biggest gains were in home building, which leveled in July at a seven-month rate 32% above last year. So great is the demand for funds to finance home mortgages that Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. warned...
...with Germany, Britain, France, and even some of the underdeveloped nations. This would be done by creating an International Development Association, dubbed "Ida." Ida was introduced to last fall's meeting of the World Bank (TIME, Oct. 20), but failed to get far because the U.S. did not push it with vigor. Now the U.S. expects to plump hard for Ida at the World Bank's September meeting in Washington, set it up with initial capital of $1 billion (one-third contributed by the U.S.) by late 1960, gradually make it shift more and more...