Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the Red Button. Sirens echo over the desert, and, all alone, Graves makes the last decision. He gives the word to push the red button. Machines take over. A cam closes a switch and power is fed to cameras, test instruments and power plants. Red and green lights on the control panel trace the action from sequence to sequence. Nothing is left to human error. Even the voice that intones the final count over the loudspeakers on Yucca Flat has been recorded on a tape that cannot blow its lines from human emotion. Electric current travels a full...
...Buck can push through such a program, large parts of the University collection could go to this cooperative book bank for permanent housing and become available in a single building to interested scholars. The plan could win support not only from the cooperating universities, but from benefactors throughout the country, and from the foundations...
...over-enthusiast here apparently stepping sideways from his shell into the water is actually pushing his shell away from the dock. He continued to push until clear and, still dry, rowed gleefully up and down the Charles, cautiously avoiding Blake Dennison, singles coach, the crew, construction debris, and other over-enthusiasts who were also rowing happily about in the mocha waters...
...BOOM will push the industry's expenditure for new plants and pipe lines to a record $1.4 billion in 1955, the fifth straight year that expansion has topped the $1 billion mark. Nearly a quarter will go for two new pipelines linking Southern and Southwestern gas fields with Midwest and Northwest consumers...
Nevertheless, there are some soft spots. One worry is the growing number of deceptively easy auto loans that helped push total auto credit to a record $10.6 billion in February. Finance companies have junked the traditional "one-third down and 24 months to pay," and some go as far as no down payment and five years to pay. Both banks and big finance companies such as General Motors Acceptance Corp. and C.I.T. have extended their terms from 24 to 30 months, and in some cases even to 36 months. So far, repossessions have stayed close to the low, prewar level...