Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members include railroads fearful of losing traffic, coal and power companies fearful of low-cost competition, seaports from Boston to Galveston that would lose some shipping. The coalition has managed to frustrate the efforts of every U.S. President since Wilson and every New York governor since Al Smith to push the seaway through Congress...
Herman caught the change in the political wind, decided not to try to push the bills through in the current session. But they were far from dead. Talmadge's political straw boss, Roy Harris, dropped a clue to the new strategy: "I wouldn't pass those bills. I'd hold 'em over the heads of the newspapers...
Latest to be described* is the Douglas 1211-J, which will look rather like its rivals, with the same swept-back wings. Its turboprop engines are expected to push it at 500 m.p.h. at 50,000 ft. If the turboprops are not ready, the 1211-J will probably start off with the giant turbojets that are just coming into production. None of the new heavies will be in production for some time. In the meantime, the far-ranging B-36, speeded up by four additional jet engines (which give it more than 435 m.p.h. at 45,000 ft.), will remain...
...Artists' Gallery was celebrating its 15th anniversary with a show of 96 happy alumni. Almost half of them, e.g., Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Adolph Gottlieb, have graduated to commercial galleries which charge commissions and push the same painters year after year. The Artists' Gallery does neither. A nonprofit outfit, it measures success only by the number of worthwhile new artists to whom it gives a start. By that measurement, it is one of Manhattan's most successful...
...picks the career of law because it is often so well paid. Social-climbing nimbly, he marries money, does a stint with the R.A.F. largely because some day "it might be very useful" to have a war record. After the war he is ready for his next big push: a seat in Parliament. Just shy of his goal, his wife discovers him renewing a wartime love affair. Hopelessly attached to her husband, Nancy Tarrant commits suicide...