Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WIND and three other Westinghouse stations is real enough: 40% of ninth-graders in Chicago -and in the rest of the U.S.-do not go on to graduate from high school. But WIND, puffing a popular cause, peddles education with an announcer's No-Cal heartiness. The push began three weeks ago, winds up this week as school starts. Says the station's Program Manager David Croninger: "We put on a saturation campaign much like an ad agency would schedule to sell cigarettes." Hard-selling its product, the station each day broadcast a windbag of "Hi, kids" spot...
...photography. He became a hustling freelancer who got a beat on the Baltimore fire of 1904 by driving a farmer's wagon through police lines. The next year he was pool photographer at Teddy Roosevelt's Russo-Japanese peace conference in Portsmouth, N.H. "You really had to push to get shots in those days," recalls Rosy. "The other guys would pull your slides or put chewing gum on your lenses...
Panting & Pantsless. That night, ready to row back to his submarine, Clark took off his trousers to prevent their getting soaked as he helped push his boat into the breakers. In his hurry, he left the trousers on the beach, arrived panting and pantsless on the sub. Three weeks later Clark got a package from Murphy: it contained his trousers, freshly cleaned and pressed. The result of the Clark expedition and Murphy's work: French collaboration made the Allied invasion immeasurably easier...
Long overdue, the world champion Milwaukee Braves were finally on the way to nailing down the National League pennant. But the leaders in Milwaukee's pennant push were not only the big names that carried the Braves to the top last year. Added this year were four strong-armed young pitchers who were major-league unknowns when the season started. Last week Milwaukee's four lads were in fine form as the Braves won seven of nine, moved seven games in front of the pesky Pittsburgh Pirates. 7½ ahead of the sagging San Francisco Giants...
...Chrome will be a little less glittering, and hung on cars stretching wider, lower and longer than any before. ¶ The horsepower race is apparently over; increases will be generally small. ¶ That much talked about "Detroit small car?" At least a year away, though there may be a push on six-cylinder economy models...