Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently convinced that the U.S. can be persuaded to give in to so valued an ally, the Menderes government has acquired the services of an influential advocate to push its case in Washington. Newly hired as "general counsel . . . in connection with the affairs of the Republic of Turkey in the U.S.": Manhattan Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, sometime (1942-54) governor of New York and Republican candidate (1944, '48) for President...
...pumped the bulk of its money into irrigation, electric power, transport and housing, only 8% into industry, e.g., one steel plant, a locomotive factory, a shipyard. Meanwhile, the "private sector" of India's economy was left free to expand. The new plan, Nehru's advisers agreed, must push more decisively toward socialism and "the public sector must be expanded relatively faster than the private sector...
Frye, meanwhile, took a step to help push Soviet policy in the right direction. While in Moscow, he invited the Soviet Academy of Sciences to send a lecturer to the United States. This lecturer, who was invited on behalf of the Medieval Academy of America, would speak on the Middle Asian States...
...airplane is fast becoming almost as familiar as the family car. In 1955 scheduled domestic airlines will gross an estimated $1.1 billion, flying 35 million passengers 20 billion miles, 20% more than last year's alltime record. A few years hence, airmen predict, the fast-growing airlines will push out railroads as the No. 1 public means of mass travel. As a result, U.S. civil air policy, as laid down by the Civil Aeronautics Board, is undergoing a radical change. Once CAB nursed along the fledgling industry by spoon-feeding it Government subsidies and holding back competition. Not only...
Further expansion in most industries, said he, will push capacity beyond the goals set for defense needs. From now on, no more write-off certificates will be given for 26 types of expansion. Among them: aluminum plants, steel-ingot and pig-iron facilities, airports, diesel locomotives and ore carriers. But Flemming increased some other goals. Among them: commercial aircraft, research and development laboratories, copper plants...