Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said. Congress had enacted only four, "and some of those, in my opinion, with provisions that were not wise." Of the remaining nine, he said, four unpassed bills were "absolutely vital": school construction, the health bill, the highway program and the water-resources bill. He planned, said Ike, to push these measures very emphatically as soon as Congress reconvenes. ¶Administered the oath of office to Harold E. Stassen as United States Deputy Representative on the United Nations Disarmament Commission. It was Stassen's fourth oath-taking since the Eisenhower Administration took office (Mutual Security Administrator, F.O.A. Administrator, Special...
...Result: a curious revival of French enthusiasm for "la relance européenne," or the relaunching of the idea of Europe. In Faure's Cabinet last week, Robert Schuman, father of Europe's only successful experiment in supranationalism (the Schuman Coal-Steel Pool), argued for a big push towards European unity before Adenauer flies to Moscow. Faure, for the first time, sided with the "Europeans" in his Cabinet. To Brussels, where the West Europeans are discussing a supranational atomic energy program, the Premier sent a message: Go ahead in earnest...
...CONSUMPTION for the U.S. this year will top earlier forecasts by 45 million to 60 million bbls., may push through the 3 billion bbl. mark for the first time in history, say petroleum economists. The outlook: a 5% to 7.5% increase in 1955, with the U.S. using some 60% of the entire world's production...
BROWN SHOE CO., which acquired the Regal Shoe Co. chain last year (TIME, April 12, 1954), will push deeper into the retail shoe market by merging with G.R. Kinney Co. Under the deal, Brown will exchange two shares of stock for every three shares of Kinney (223,260 shares outstanding), will operate its five factories, 344 retail outlets as a division under present management. Combined sales of the two: $186 million...
MONSANTO Chemical Co. will push into the oil business through a merger with Arkansas' Lion Oil Co. (1954 gross: $99 million). Under the deal, still to be approved by the stockholders, Monsanto will exchange 1½ shares of stock for each of Lion's 3,090,912 shares outstanding, will operate the company under the Lion name to provide basic oil supplies for its growing petrochemical business. Combined assets of the two: $524 million...