Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week before, Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen announced he would push for increased East-West trade as one way of puncturing the Iron Curtain with democratic ideas. Stassen said, "From its newly attained position of strength, the West can use economic forces to play a major part in lessening the East-West tension...
...rotated as a "human windmill." Last week, after putting their two daughters to bed in a hotel room nearby, Aal & Mac went into their act at Cologne's Kaiserhof Theater. Their eleven-year-old son Hubert strapped his mother to the "windmill" and gave it a gentle push to start it rotating. Behind the windmill were six pingpong balls balanced on tall pillars, and the idea was that Aal, dressed to kill in cowboy suit and ten-gallon hat, would knock down the targets with his .22-caliber rifle by shooting past his wife's rotating body, like...
...beauty is only skin deep, and a step inside Lamont will confirm that. Walk up to the door--no, no one will push the door into you, it's all glass, and you can see for miles in every direction. Why, there's one little girl who sits right by the door behind a counter, aiming her taut cashmere sweater...
Other new automatic processes: ¶A push-button hide-tanning process developed by the Colonial Tanning Co. and just installed at its Milwaukee plant. Instead of curing hides by a great deal of manual work, Colonial-now has a conveyor belt to carry hides past splitting and shaving machines, uses automatic controls to mix acids and oils in correct proportion to tan them, and still more automatic controls to circulate just the right amount of warm air in drying rooms to finish curing the hides. In the past, it took six men eight hours to tan 50,000 square feet...
...inboard marine engine that its makers say delivers more power per pound than any other small marine engine was put on sale by Aerojet-General Corp.. Cincinnati, bossed by former Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. The engine weighs 160 Ibs.. develops 26.5 h.p.. and can push a 20-ft. boat, with four adults, at 30 m.p.h. Price...