Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Will Clayton, the plant was the logical outgrowth of doing business in Mexico. Anderson, Clayton has been buying Mexican cotton for 27 years, has helped push the nation's annual output from 200,000 to over 800,000 bales by crop loans to farmers. Since the company owns 22 cotton gins, five edible-oil mills and an oil refinery in Mexico, the food business is the natural outlet for its oil production. With $4,000,000 allotted for expansion of his Mexican business in 1950, Clayton hopes to see Mexico's cotton crop grow...
...silvery plane taxied to a stop on Rio's Santos Dumont Airfield, 5,000 waiting citizens rushed toward it. A roar went up as the door opened to frame the bulky figure of São Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros. Attendants struggled to push the loading ramp through the crowd. When they got it within two feet of the plane, Adhemar jumped. The crowd applauded wildly. Then Adhemar fought his way, grinning, down the steps to set foot in Rio for the first time in two years. He had come to open his formal campaign...