Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Nicklaus, 23: a tie for fifth place in the Cajun Classic at Lafayette, La., worth $1,050-enough to push his official 1963 winnings to $100,040 and make him the second golfer ever to win more than $100,000 in a single year. The first: Arnold Palmer, 34, who tops the money winners' list with...
Last week at the annual meeting of the Society advisory council in New York, the Society began gearing up for its biggest push. As a major member of the United Bible Societies, it is participating in a worldwide drive to treble the annual circulation of Bibles, Testaments and extracts during the next three years. Currently, about 50 million copies are distributed annually. Of the 150 million goal set for 1966, the American Bible Society will contribute 75 million-more than double the number it distributed last year...
...Corp., spoke for many businessmen: "President Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson thought alike on most issues. In a short while there will be a return to the status quo in the economy." Most businessmen expect Johnson to continue his longtime emphasis on expansive defense spending. They also expect him to push a tax cut, and feel that his legislative abilities may improve its chances of passing...
...years of tuna packing-tuna sales fell 35%, the industry laid off workers, and some plants had to shut down. Instead of panicking, tunamen formed a "Tuna Emergency Committee," launched a $10 million advertising campaign designed to restore public confidence, and cut wholesale prices to encourage merchants to push tuna in special sales. Related food industries-in celery, mayonnaise, mushroom soup-came to the rescue by featuring tuna prominently in their own ads. The U.S. Agriculture and Interior departments had their agents appear on TV and radio to plug tuna, played up tuna in food bulletins, and even sent "tuna...
Although Two Roads struggles to be dispassionate, its sympathies obviously lie with the Northern cause. Lincoln let pressures push him "to the brink of demagoguery" with his violent House Divided speech, but the gravest failure of moderation was in the South. Davis and other Southern leaders betrayed their temperate beliefs when they abandoned temperate methods as inexpedient...