Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York State Chairman Michael H. Prendergast told newsmen that Harriman, if he is "convinced the convention wants him," will seek the nomination even though it means a floor fight with Stevenson. Added Prendergast: Stevenson "isn't going to stampede anybody." Two nights later, to underline the Harriman push, Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio lavishly entertained some 50 Democratic bigwigs from a dozen states, e.g., Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington (not without presidential hopes himself), Rhode Island Governor Dennis Roberts, Pittsburgh Mayor and Democratic Leader David Lawrence. After dinner at Manhattan's "21," De Sapio hustled...
...SeaMaster. the first good-sized craft to test seagoing jet engines, is comparable in length and wing span to a big airliner. Its four Allison J71 turbojet engines with take-off afterburners can get it into the air with a 30,000-lb. payload and push it faster than 600 m.p.h. at 40,000-ft. altitude. These characteristics make it a medium bomber, although its Navy sponsors, for fear of antagonizing the Air Force's Strategic Air Command and the Navy's own airplane-carrier partisans, prefer to call it a "mine layer." Portable Base. If the SeaMaster...
CUBAN OIL will get a big push from Standard Oil Co. (Indiana). Standard has earmarked $10 million to drill in 12 million acres of south Cuba's coastal land and tideland, will own a permanent half-interest in any productive wells it brings in after spending the total...
Isetta's slogan, which has helped push production to 100 a day: "Less taxes per year (39 marks) than a city dachshund (60 marks)." Still stranger cars are ready to go on sale. One is the egg-shaped Brütsch, named after Stuttgart Designer Egon Brütsch, which stands barely 3 ft. high, has four forward speeds but no reverse, does 67 miles per gallon. Strangest of all is the Dornier Delta, which looks like an old-fashioned electric toaster on wheels; the front and back sections hinge at the top to form doors. The front seats...
...Bernerd Anderson, 45, who resigned recently as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (TIME, July 25), became president of Ventures Ltd., giant Canadian holding company with interests (mostly mining) scattered over five continents. He succeeds Thayer Lindsley, Ventures' founder, who becomes board chairman. Texas-born Lawyer Anderson will help push the company in a new direction. It will slow down on expanding its holdings, concentrate on developing them. To that end, Ventures is being reorganized so that the board will have fewer staff executives, more experts in finance and business. ¶ Robert Hugh Johnson. 56, moved up from first vice...