Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9), and both had acquired a glow of personal discovery for the "land of beauty and swat." Schulman blushed a modest red when enthusiastic Alaskans told him that TIME'S cover had stirred enough general interest to help give the statehood bill its final push through the Senate. For a report on the final steps to statehood, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The 49th State...
...retailers and sales personnel, got 100 winners. The program cost $60,000, but it increased sales 30% during the contest period. Bell & Howell this year will give three trips to Las Vegas, Nev. for top salesmen, with the added incentive that head office VIPs will take over their territories, push the least-promising prospects. Some companies offer fully paid trips to Europe...
...quite ready to declare the recession extinct or the threat of a setback ended. Automobile production sagged 19% off last year's rate; industrial building was off 31%. Canadians also kept an eye on the U.S., where an economic revival is certain to give an extra push to Canadian business...
Most supermarket chains have merchandising committees to figure out ways to present and sell the best of the 150 new products flooding into the market each week. Once, grocers could depend on personal service to push a product; today, with the rise of the self-service market, the business has about 1,500,000 fewer clerks than it would otherwise need. What sells is what appeals to the shopper's impulse: the color, the size, the shape, even the shelf position of the package. Years ago, only comparatively few companies worried about their labels...
Space & Atoms. What saved the company in the postwar planemaker's famine was the same thing that made it grow in the first place: new ideas, plus topflight research into new fields. Gradually extending its contract to 87% ownership, General Tire gave Kimball the funds he needed to push Aerojet into liquid engines for some of the first U.S. military rockets: Douglas' early Nike, the Lark and Loon for the Navy. Aerojet branched out to work on underwater rocket engines, set up separate departments to pursue both liquid-and solid-fuel engines...