Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quotas within the country. Bolivia will lose $1,000,000, Australia $5,000,000. Some governments will have to cut back budgets to accommodate reduced revenues, may possibly slap on discriminatory quotas against U.S. goods in retaliation. But the State Department hopes the quotas will give an important push toward working out an international agreement to stabilize the prices of lead and zinc, hopes that the necessity for the quotas will then be eliminated...
Although Dot's song trailed the field by about five days, the company is counting heavily on Entertainer Allen to give it the TV boost it needs. A production push of the kind the hula hoopsters have been engaged in can send costs soaring to five times what they usually are. To absorb that kind of expense requires a major hit (like Purple People Eater), and none of the hula songs yet recorded seem likely to go that far. "It's beginning to look," said one weary A. & R. man last week, "like everybody got carried away with...
...used to wear dark glasses at tournaments to help create a disarming dumb-blonde impression. Deceptively casual at the bridge table, she hums, giggles, makes unfathomable grimaces. Famed for her wariness of peeking opponents, she holds her cards close to her chest, occasionally reaches across the table to push Goren's cards back...
...such blue chips as U.S. Steel and Standard Oil (N.J.), the Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 520 level that has been a barrier three times before, climbed to an alltime record high of 526.57 before settling back to 526.43. What gave the market its record-breaking push was the same combination of improving business news, institutional buying and fear of inflation that has sent it on one of the steepest climbs in history...
Shot Rod. In Gary, Ind., when police discovered Guy Thomas' car sitting in the middle of a street with a dead battery, cardboard license plates, no brakes and no gearshift, Thomas explained that he was "just waiting for a push...