Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kerosene, wood alcohol, or, as one U.S. officer puts it, even "on coffee or old rags." The NKVD was instructed to round up everyone in Germany who knew how to build jets. U.S. and British bombers had done the Russians an unintentional favor by making the Nazis push their factories deeper into Eastern Germany. A few German plane builders escaped, but 80% of the Nazi aircraft industry-then well ahead of the U.S. on jet development-was whisked behind the Iron Curtain. The Russians got Designer Sigfrid Günther of Heinkel; they moved the Junkers works to Kuibyshev...
...Have Reluctantly . . ." As the President stalked away from his desk, his staff handed out a prepared statement opening with what has lately become a Truman cliche: "I have reluctantly signed . . ." The DPA would not keep prices down, it would push them up, he charged...
Nashville's plugging has so far raised Smith's income to nearly $1,500 a week, promises to push it even higher. Says WSM Program Director Jack Stapp, the Rudolf Bing of Grand Ole Opry: "He's going like wildfire." Says Smith in his soft Tennessee drawl: "I'm very well pleased...
...Push. By now, few bookmen would deny that the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild and some 50 other clubs have stimulated book reading and book buying. Privately, most booksellers admit that the clubs have often helped their business over the past 25 years (BoM started in 1926, the Guild in 1927). A glance at almost any list of bookstore bestsellers shows that most of them got under way to the accompaniment of book-club ballyhoo and the word-of-mouth created by a book-club choice. And it is a pretty good bet that such nonfiction bestsellers...
...Harold R. ("Bill") Boyer, General Motors' director of production engineering. An M.I.T. graduate who started in the auto industry "shoveling nuts & bolts." Boyer is an old hand at aircraft production. During World War II, he was chief of the plane-manufacturing division of the War Production Board, helped push output up to 100,000 planes a year. As head of the new APB, Bill Boyer will set the schedule for military and civilian planes, decide when models should be "frozen" (no further design changes), where scarce materials should go and how fast plants should be expanded to keep production...