Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every newcomer to San Francisco is overtaken with a sense of complete be wilderment. The mind, however it may be prepared for an astonishing condition of affairs, cannot immediately push aside its old instincts of value and ideas of business, letting all past experience go for naught . . . There is a period when it wears neither the old nor the new phase, but the vanishing images of one and the growing perceptions of the other...
...pace. Last week production was up to 155,000 v. 139,600 the week before. Nevertheless, most dealers thought they could unload all their 1955 models before changeover time in September and October. One reason is that buyers believe, rightly, that the industry's recent wage increases will push up prices for 1956 models...
Seventeen from One. Automation on the farm is not a new idea. The big push came in the last 15 years, mothered by wartime necessity when the demands for food were huge and the shortage of manpower crippling. In the 1850s about 80% of the U.S. population lived on farms; today, the figure is only...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories announced its silicon solar battery (TIME, May 3, 1954), it fired the imaginations of the science fictionists, and the solar system was soon abuzz with solar-powered space ships. Trimming their silicon sails to catch the sunlight, spacemen used the electricity generated by the batteries to push themselves from planet to planet...
Pocket Veto. In Billings, Mont., when charged with attempted theft, William F. Barraugh explained that he had forgotten to empty his pockets of the cheese, meat, sardines, avocado and bologna he had put there when he found the grocery store "too crowded to push a cart...