Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John McMahon is in a position to push the trend. Last week, at 47, he was elected commander in chief of the Volunteers-the fourth in the organization's 62-year history, and the first who is not a member of the Booth family that founded...
...planning the future, they would like a really full life; they want each other and their married mates as well. Author Evan Hunter suggests that life in suburbia is to blame, mutters vaguely that even success and a happy family are not enough for a man whose inner urges push beyond the humdrum life at the other...
...Giving a Push. Predictably, this display of weakness in Paris only served to spur Algiers to new assaults. Late in the week, abandoning all attempts to keep open a line of diplomatic retreat, insurgent leaders took a public pledge not to submit to Paris until De Gaulle governed France. The rebels seemed to have all the initiative and unity. Without risking an invasion of the French mainland, they could set off troubles, as in Corsica. And in Tunisia, violent fighting broke out between Tunisian army units and the garrison at Remada, one of the ten bases France still holds...
...level of "reasonably full employment" could be achieved along with stable prices, generally agreed that it would average out at 96% employment, or 4% unemployment. If unemployment rose above 4%, they felt that lowered purchasing power would cause prices to fall; if unemployment dropped below 4%, increasing demand would push prices higher. Now they know that this level no longer applies. The level of unemployment is getting progressively higher simply because the mere availability of labor or products has less and less effect...
...costs than foreign lines. But few shippers are likely to pull out of the conferences right away. Four hours after the court handed down its decision. Maryland's Republican Senator John Marshall Butler introduced a bill in Congress to make the dual rates legal. Powerful shipping interests will push the bill hard, but it will probably not get a hearing in this session of Congress...