Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SPUTNIK : The success of the Soviet satellite, followed as it was by a mighty surge of Russian propaganda, made neces sary a re-examination of free-world technological progress. It has long been a cardinal aim of British foreign policy to share in U.S. nuclear secrets; Harold Macmillan would push hard for such a sharing, and in the Sputnik era there seemed a fair chance that the U.S. Congress would at last approve. On a broader basis, President Eisenhower has long felt the need for an overall pooling of NATO scientific talent. At the White House dinner for Elizabeth...
...interfering with the U.S.'s top-priority program of military ballistic-missile research. For eight lost years after World War II, the U.S. had spent an average of less than $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistic-missile projects. The Eisenhower Administration decided in 1954 to push ballistic-missile development, after the physicists decided that they could make a hydrogen warhead light enough to be carried in the nose of a missile. The Russians, well along on missilery with or without an atomic warhead, had a head start that the U.S. urgently needed to narrow...
RECIPROCAL TRADE will be major congressional battleground next year when current laws expire. Protectionists are gaining strength in Congress; they will push hard to wipe out laws under which President Eisenhower can lower many tariffs whenever similar concessions are granted by foreign countries. White House has given notice that it will fight to have laws extended, though it may have to accept some changes...
TANKER BOOM will push U.S. shipyards to new peacetime record this year despite cut-rate foreign competition, post-Suez shipping slump. Domestic shipyards have 99 merchant vessels grossing 2,316,572 tons under construction or on order, v. 44 ships totaling 729,660 tons at this time last year. Of the total, 82 vessels (2,118,672 tons) are tankers...
...midst of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the company's financial reports. Trading his family's rubber-machinery business for control of Bellanca. Albert went on a stock-swapping spree that turned the small aircraft partsmaker into a grab bag of 70 firms, and helped push its stock from $4.37 a share to $30.50 a share within a few months (TIME. June 25, 1956). The stock plummeted last year to $1.75 a share because of the overexpansion, has since been suspended from trading on the American Stock Exchange; Bellanca subsidiaries folded or were sold...