Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years of hunting, Dogcatcher McGowen had come to think of Maverick as something special-a symbol of sorts. "He kind of got under my skin," he said. Last month, when McGowen got orders to shoot the dog, he refused: "Get somebody else." Then McGowen planned his biggest push. One morning two police cars and three of McGowen's cars cruised the tightly netted area. Neighbors took up positions near by. One of McGowen's men, armed with an air rifle loaded with a nicotine-tipped needle, climbed to the rooftop near the spot where Maverick liked...
...lend money to countries on easy rates for long terms. Under Ida, as the British call it, leans would be repayable in "soft" national currencies rather than in such "hard" currencies as the U.S. dollar and the Deutsche Mark, as the World Bank requires. The U.S. itself did not push very hard for Ida, a plan originally suggested by Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. It got a warmer welcome among the underdeveloped countries that would do the borrowing than the industrial nations that would do the lending; it appealed to the diplomats present more than to the bankers...
...extra push for employment was partly due to Detroit's early changeover for 1959 models, which not only raised auto payrolls but spurred better business in many related industries...
...York Exchange, helped lead the whole market by week's end to a new alltime high of 543.36 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. U.S. Steel rose 4⅛ during the week to 84½. Bethlehem 2¼ to 51, Youngstown 6f to 117. Also helping push the market up was a big play in the nonferrous metals market. Copper shares rose up to 9^ points for the week, partly on the strength of copper strikes in Canada, Northern Rhodesia and New Mexico. Zinc and aluminum stocks also rose. The feeling that the U.S. economy on the climb again...
...Doing" Something. In fact, during 1958 the President has exercised strong leadership of rare quality. He fought hard, long and successfully to push the three essentials of his program-defense reorganization, foreign aid, and reciprocal trade-through a reluctant Congress. He stood staunchly behind the attempts of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to bring sanity into the farm-subsidy program when many a Republican Congressman was yelping for Benson's scalp. After the revolution in Iraq last July, it took President Eisenhower only twelve hours to have U.S. Marines landing in Lebanon -and not even from Democratic liberals...