Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first launching at this new Air Force missile base and the free world's first firing of a ballistic under push button warfare circumstances. The 11-man crew fired the missile at 3:43 p.m., only 11 minutes after starting to fill it with fuel...
...Lawrence Lowell (then professor of government) considered the free elective system "educational anarchy" and secured faculty authorization for a committee "to administer degrees with distinction in History and Literature." Thus History and Lit became Harvard's first field of concentration; when Lowell became President in 1909, he began to push the idea of concentration and general examinations, but not until the Class of 1921 did every student have a field of concentration...
...venerable N.C.R., the world's No. 1 seller of cash registers and No. 2 maker of office equipment (after International Business Machines). N.C.R. is hustling to expand beyond mechanical to electronic machines. In this fiercely competitive field, N.C.R. started long after IBM, Remington Rand or Burroughs; its real push began only in 1952, when N.C.R. bought the small Computer Research Corp. of Hawthorne, Calif. (TIME, Oct. 6, 1952). Since then it has moved fast, boosted its research and development bill from $2,600,000 (1.1% of sales) to $14 million (3.6% of sales). This year's heavy research...
With an added push from the nation's No. 4 pop song, American Motors' "little Nash Rambler" was in high gear last week and setting new records. November production hit a new high of 26,782 cars. For the first two months of its fiscal year (October and November), Rambler almost doubled its last year's production. It accounted for 9.2% of U.S. auto sales in October and is still pushing up speed. Rambler's freewheeling President George Romney scheduled 34,000 cars for December and 32,000 for January. He not only expects to sell...
...Crimson went ahead for the last time minutes later when Mike Donohue sank a 30-foot push shot with five and one-half minutes to play. It was then that the Lord Jeffs ran off their string of ten which iced the contest...