Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cocked and wide, on the mysterious ways of the land - and on the politics of Prime Minister Nehru. At his New Delhi home, sacred cows browse in the flower beds ; snake charmers with their cobras, fortunetellers and holy men with begging bowls crowd the veranda, push in on him. "I feel them at my shoulder as I work," says Campbell...
...record as saying: "Discrimination and segregation ... are ethically and morally indefensible and contrary to the Gospel of Christ." But Ted Adams knows that such ringing phrases from the leadership are largely ignored by the rank and file. Like many another Southern church leader, he is careful not to push the burdened Baptist conscience too hard. "I am perfectly aware that there are complex and emotion-packed problems which must be solved as the races are integrated. My responsibility is not to dispute the fact that there are such problems. My responsibility is to preach the kind of Gospel that will...
...over a dozen companies in the past three years, is picking up another. Wolfson has bought 60,000 shares (40%) of St. Louis' Scullin Steel Co., a small foundry (1954 sales: $10,822,434) making steel castings for railroad cars and ships. Wolfson's buying has helped push up Scullin stock from 23 to 42½ per share...
COCA-COLA earnings are fizzing up despite competition from Pepsi-Cola and other soft drinks. Third-quarter sales were 13.4% better than last year, will help push Coke's full-year earnings to nearly $30 million (almost $7 per share), nudging 1950's $31.8 million. Next year should be even better: Coke's new large bottles (10 oz., 12 oz., 26 oz.) are catching on so fast that eleven company-owned plants report sales 13% to 77% better than last year...
...with Two Hats. As Polaroid's president, Land is able to push promising research projects even when the payoff seems far off, e.g., color film for the 60-second camera, which is "coming along nicely" after years in the laboratory. He has a formal, functional president's office in Polaroid's Cambridge headquarters. But he spends most of his time in a dingy laboratory office cluttered with cameras, chemicals and corncob pipes...