Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Would you push your brand new racing car that could win you the world's speed record over the cliff for me Reggie...
...ultimate decay is a hope, not a program. The Truman-Acheson plan is still purely defensive. It seeks to limit the enemy's power to advance, but it develops no drive to push him back. It leaves the political initiative in the hands of the enemy...
...record seller. When long-playing records first appeared in 1947, Goody was selling about $200,000 worth of records a year in a small shop. Goody, deciding that LPs were the coming thing, dumped most of his stock of 78-r.p.m.s at 50% off. To push the LPs, he offered them at 30% discount. He threw in an LP attachment free with every $25 worth of records, to date has given away 20,000. He flooded schools and colleges with direct-mail literature touting his 30% discounts word-of-mouth advertising did the rest. His sales shot...
...boss of six western radio stations. In all, her empire is worth an estimated $30 million. Yet Eleanor McClatchy is so publicity-shy that she seldom permits her picture to be taken, will not even say where she went to school.* "I was taught that newspaper people should never push themselves forward," she explains, "but should stand on the sidelines and report the doings of others...
...Freedom of Information Convention." Small countries wanted a ban on stories which might injure their "national prestige and dignity." They wanted clauses saying the press should promote peace, combat war propaganda and work towards a solution of economic, social and humanitarian problems. The Communists chimed in and tried to push these provisions even further...