Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, marked holes. By connecting the proper holes with plug-in wires, he translates his problem into language that the computer can understand. When the panel is inserted in the Princeton machine, the computer gets to work at once; numbers flash rapidly across a glass screen, and spidery arms push electronic pens up the peaks and down into the valleys of a long graph. A correct reading of the graph tells the answer...
...Sequence of Things." The day after Senate debate on the bill began last week, the Republican Policy Committee sat down in the Senate Secretary's office and heard the bad news: they were half a dozen votes short of enough to push their bill through; the George amendment would carry. New York's Irving Ives, while he promised to stick with the party, grumbled that the G.O.P. was going to take a licking come November if it did not do something for the "little fellow." A number of other Republicans, especially those up for re-election this year...
Looking ahead last winter, Speaker Joe Martin had predicted that foreign aid would run into stormy weather when it reached the House. He was right. But last week the biggest men in the House, on both sides of the aisle, joined forces to push the Eisenhower Administration's foreign-aid bill through...
Many do both. In Boston, dealers offer toasters, trips to Bermuda, gold watches, electric ranges or TV sets with each new sale. In other cities, dealers promise trade-ins of $500 or more for anything customers can drive, push or shovel onto their lots, flood newspapers with ads offering wonderful-sounding deals that often turn out to be phony. Sample: $195 down for a 1954 Plymouth, payments of only $44 per month for 24 months. What the ads do not say is that the 24th payment is a whopping...
...whose seven ramshackle wooden factories, taken all together, were worth less than $30,000. Today, after seven years of operating under Japan's newly liberalized labor laws, Ohmi has grown into a $3,000,000 corporation, whose 13,000 employees and half a million humming spindles have helped push it up to sixth place in Japan's vital yarn industry. The formula by which Ohmi's boss, fat, arrogant Kakuji Natsukawa, has achieved this success is simple: he has paid little attention to the labor laws...