Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew that the fight would have to be refought on every major bill, that their forces might never be as strong again-and they no longer had the Rules Committee blockade as an excuse for failure. They buckled down to prepare for a grim era of whipcracking, blandishment and push-pull patronage to work their will in Congress...
...Titan). Like Polaris and the Army's tactical Pershing missile, Minuteman is cheaper and far simpler to handle than its liquid-fueled predecessors, requires a much smaller crew. Once built and armed, it can be stored indefinitely, countdown-ready-an ideal weapon for the split-second demands of push button warfare...
Chairman's Plan. What went wrong was not the widely advertised series of "natural calamities"-though the communiqué talked gloomily of floods and droughts-but Chairman'Mao's own plans. More than two years ago, Mao launched his big push. Every peasant was to be put in a commune. He ordered a 10% cutback in acreage, accompanied by intensive cultivation that would release more manpower for industry. Mechanization and irrigation were supposed to keep the crop yields soaring. But though the new report brags that tractors have tripled, the total still comes to only...
...report also discounts the widely held belief that steel settlements are a major factor in pushing the wage-price spiral higher. Steel settlements in the postwar years were a part of the prevailing wage-price push but not necessarily the first cause in each new round. Even though finished-steel-product prices from 1947 to 1959 rose 109% v. only some 30% for consumer prices, Livernash hypothesizes that if steel prices had risen only as much as overall prices, the consumer price jump would have been slowed by a mere 2.4% through...
...million in 1961 on capital expenditures, biggest total in the last three years, and another $200 million to search for oil and gas. It is already spending 10% of its profits on research, and 25? of every research dollar on the promising field of petrochemicals. Out of this push in research and plant improvement, Jack Rathbone expects to come new economies and new products that will make Jersey Standard even better equipped to maintain its lead in the changing world...