Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHEMICAL MERGER will push Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., already one of biggest raw-plastics producers, deeper into consumer fields. In $99 million stock swap, Union Carbide plans to acquire Visking Corp., big producer of cellulose meat casings and polyethylene film (raincoats, containers...
...ranks as an authentic American hero, just as certainly as any general who ever won a victory for American arms, or any statesman who triumphed on behalf of U.S. diplomacy. Rockefeller's life is simply, quietly and uniquely dedicated to his fellow men. Through his compulsive drive to push back the horizons of learning, culture, and opportunity, he has set in motion currents that have influenced the lives of most of his fellow citizens at home and millions of his fellow humans abroad. With an instinctive feeling for the latent resources of the U.S. and the world...
...committee to push the teaching in U.S. high schools and colleges of the facts about Communism was established by the Foundation for Religious Action in the Social and Civic Order and the American Political Science Association. It got an immediate endorsement from President Eisenhower. Said he: Our students "must be taught to discriminate between the American form of government and the Soviet form. When they have all the facts, I am confident they will make the correct choice...
...Byers Co. (nine-month net sales: $23 million), will be taken over by Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth biggest U.S. rubber company. In stock swap after long negotiations, General Tire has acquired about 75% of Byers' stock, will expand production and push it into General's booming plastics business...
...call to freedom in the court's ruling. But he gets it garbled, comes to think of it as a call to arms and, in the book's least effective chapters, answers it by ostentatiously dating an unsavory white girl. This grim and joyless effort to "push things" pulls the family into trouble, and the father into a not altogether plausible tragedy...