Word: pushed
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...Roman Catholic be elected President of the U.S.? Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, is the acknowledged front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 and intends to push the question to a positive answer. Last week, after sampling the opinions of 9,000 voters of all religions, the Gallup poll gave Jack Kennedy some new answers to ponder. Findings...
...million or so sailboaters in the U.S., who pride themselves on skillful ability to match wits with wind, tides and currents, without the crutch of a gasoline engine. To many of them, powerboatmen are simply "stinkpotters." who think there is nothing more to know about seamanship than how to push a starter button and steer. They in turn suffer the derisive snort of "rag-haulers." The schism runs deep. After all, say the rag-haulers, we were here first...
Many investors believe that splits bring higher prices, but this is not necessarily so. To push up the price the company must also raise the dividend. After a two-year study, C. Austin Barker reported in the Harvard Business Review that 75 companies that split their stock and raised the dividend quickly gained 18% in price over and above the rise in the market, held the gain six months later. But a group of 13 companies that split their stock without raising dividends temporarily gained only 5% in price, dropped back 8% below the market level...
Price had hoped the public airing would give the nuclear-powered plane project a push he long has contended it needs...
Navy almost stole second place from Penn with a tremendous closing spring which provided an exciting finish. The Middies rowed the whole last half-mile above a 38, finishing at a 41. Penn had to push its stroke up to a 37 in order to squeeze ahead by half a second. The Crimson boat, never rowing above a 35, was not even pressed...