Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's clubs or on radio shows, he just tells stories about his town or the west--everyone is amazed that there is an author who doesn't like to talk about his own book. The contrast between this author and Bill Devereux, the publicity man assigned to "push" the book, is the main point of the story, although there are side shots taken at other standard figures of the publishing world...
...Push & Pull. To overcome the bad habits of earlier ram jets, Wright engineers have installed in the new model a complicated system of instruments that measure temperature, pressure, etc. As the ram jet changes speed and altitude the instruments feed in just the amount of fuel needed to keep the engine working at top efficiency. If a sudden change of conditions makes the main flame go out, it is reignited immediately by the small, sheltered flame...
Shock Wave. When an atom bomb explodes above the ground (as it did at Nagasaki and Hiroshima), the air around it is heated tremendously. Its push to expand creates a shock wave that roars outward in all directions with enormous speed. At 1,000 ft. from "zero," the point directly beneath the bomb, the wind whooshes out at 800 m.p.h., faster than the speed of sound. Two miles away, it is still blowing at 70 m.p.h...
...opulent new Shamrock Hotel. In causing its white, glass-tiered, palm-bordered bulk to rise above the Texas coastal plain, McCarthy endowed Houston with the Southwest's most luxurious hostelry-a soft-carpeted, $21 million palace which boasts French cooking (filet mignon: $11), air-conditioned bedrooms with both push-button radio and Muzak, afternoon tea served to string music and big-name dinner entertainers like Edgar Bergen and Dorothy Lamour...
...Damned If I'm Not." Other steelmen showed that it takes more than the push of a button to get results. Even with higher prices, said Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s President Ben Moreell, his company expects lower profits per ton this quarter than in the first nine months of 1949. As for dividends, said he, over the past 27 years they have averaged only 1.6% of the asset value of J. & L. stock. To give stockholders a fair return of 8% under present tax allowances for depreciation, Moreell figures that J. & L. would have to boost prices...