Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to easing credit, the Federal Housing Administration hopes to push the home-improvement business in 1956 by upping the maximum Title I (repair and modernization) loan from $2,500 to $3,500 and the maximum repayment period from three to five years. Home improvement alone, guessed one builder, might be a $10 billion industry this year. Housing men also expect more higher-priced houses will be built. Said one builder: "People can afford to buy better houses, and we have had to raise standards and prices after ten years of building cheeseboxes...
Nevertheless, of three Academy record times set this year, one forecasts a possible Navy victory in one event, and two may push Crimson swimmers to their best times of the season in another pair of races...
...even ten years, say the pessimists. Meanwhile, the U.S. must keep itself able to ward off more conventional attacks on its territory, and also be able to retaliate if an attack comes. Even high Air Force officers who have most faith in the ICBM feel that the U.S. must push conventional programs, both offensive and defensive, almost as if the ICBM were impossible...
...McGinnis group won control of the Boston & Maine Railroad last April, the B. & M. president's chair has been empty, and McGinnis aspired to fill it, as he does the presidency of the New Haven. When he failed to show up before ICC Examiner Homer T. Kirby to push his application, his lawyer explained that he was busy 24 hours a day personally dealing with the New Haven's problems. Asked Examiner Kirby: "If Mr. McGinnis spends all his waking and sleeping hours running the New Haven, how can he possibly run the Boston & Maine...
Army has Don Kutyna, who has just set the West Point pool record for the 200-yard breaststroke. His 2:26.4 time, especially this early in the season, will push Hawkins and Sigo Falk to their extremes and may well beat even that...