Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year in a bid to increase the firm's sales in Italy as well. Result: sales in some lines jumped as much as 40%. Marinotti is now dickering to build new plants in India, Germany and the U.S., will soon travel to the U.S. to push American sales and promote a virtually tearproof synthetic paper called Papertex (TIME, July...
...months-not cloudbursts on order. Even when seeded clouds obligingly dropped heavy rain on several large areas, Bowen refused to claim credit. Nevertheless he smiles a little when he hears of his growing reputation among grateful farmers. "There's no doubt," he says, "that we are starting to push nature around...
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Du Font's 40-year-old ownership of 23% of General Motors stock violated the 1914 Clayton Act (TIME, June 17), U.S. businessmen have been fretting over just how far the Justice Department will try to push the new decision. Last week they could breathe a little easier. In a carefully prepared speech Robert A. Bicks, a top member of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, told the American Bar Association that the Government would take a long, hard look before trying to upset other longstanding affiliations. Said Bicks...
...California's Don Bowden, first American miler to crack four minutes (3:58.7), and New Jersey's Tom Courtney, world record holder in the half-mile (1:46.8), were passing up the 1,500-meter event. The crowd had come out to see the Americans and Scandinavians push each other to a new record on the fast, hard-packed track where Australia's John Landy set the mile record of 3:58 in 1954. Fidgeting, the fans sat back to watch the Scandinavians go it alone...
...Records. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), the world's biggest oil company, was close behind. Despite a drop in demand, Chairman Eugene Holman estimated second-quarter earnings at $188 million, somewhat below the first quarter but still enough to push the company's first-half net to an alltime peak of $425 million, some $33 million better than 1956. On a smaller scale, California's Superior Oil Co. did even better, with nine-month (ending May 31) profits of $15.7 million (equal to $37.20 per share), for a 412% jump over the previous year...