Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thanksgiving Day, U.S. troops in the front lines ate turkey with trimmings, some of it delivered by airdrop. Next day, at 8 a.m., the big push got rolling. At first, enemy resistance was so negligible that some soldiers who had had no chance for a feast the day before because they were on the move sat down and gorged themselves on the fine holiday meal sent up by the quartermasters...
...rushed up to prevent a breakthrough. One company of the 25th Division was overrun ("There's damned little of that company left," the assistant division commander said). An artillery battery of the 2nd Division was overrun. For the moment, at least, MacArthur's big push was stopped in its tracks...
...Korea, U.S. pilots killed more than 2,000 Red troops yesterday. Swarms of U.S. Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers strafed and rocketed the southbound columns, inflicting heavy casualties. Impeding the Red push toward Songchon, B-26 bombers bombed a hillside and caused a landslide which blocked the main road to the town...
...said Fairless, the C.I.O. steel workers get a 15? an hour increase [they are reportedly asking for 17?], it will push steel's labor bill up $6 a ton. A price rise in many of the raw materials that go into steel has already added $4 a ton to the cost of steel. Said Fairless: "If the cost of making steel should rise 10% ... it would be inevitable, I think, that the price of steel should do likewise," i.e., a boost of about...
...Novelist Forester push aside the hot roast beef of history, as he served it in the Hornblower series, to take up a cold contemporary potato like Randall? Says Forester: to convey the impact of fate on a man "who has lived through the wars and the depressions." In two projected novels, Randall is due for a flyer in high finance and a dive into the submarine campaigns of World...