Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gods had sent an avalanche to level a 300-year-old monastery and had killed three lamas. Then had come a drought and a smallpox epidemic. Worst of all, none of the Sherpa guides or the porters the Japanese had hired were Sama people. When the expedition tried to push ahead, the villagers sharpened their kukris (curved knives) and fingered their piles of yak dung. The Japanese quit, climbed a couple of nearby peaks to save face, then went home...
...booming aluminum industry in the past 15 years. Manufacturers have also pioneered a host of new products, from low-priced particle board, made of chips and shavings, to weatherproof, plastic-coated plywood and porcelain-faced colored panels (choice of nine) for bathrooms or exterior remodeling. The biggest push for wood products, in an era of self-service selling, comes from U.S. industry's heightened awareness of eye-catching packaging, and a wide range of new products, e.g., wet-proof, rodentproof, flameproof paper bags are now widely used instead of drums, fiberboard cartons in place of wooden crates. So great...
With control of the U.S. Senate (present count: 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans, one vacancy) hinging on the outcome, both parties have applied steam-boiler pressure in recent months to push known vote getters into the most critical of this year's 32 senatorial contests. Last week the pressure from the Democratic boiler pushed Nevada's easygoing, cherubic Alan Bible, 46, elected in 1954 to fill the unexpired term of the late Pat McCarran, into a contest for which he had little taste: another Nevada Democratic primary campaign...
DRIV-UR-SELF MERGER will push Hertz Corp., already dominant in its field (1955 revenues: $39.1 million), into 25% expansion. Hertz is acquiring property of New England's big (5,400 cars and trucks, $10 million annual revenue) Avis Rent-a-Car System from Boston's Richard S. Robie (TIME, March...
...necessities-for her table, her home, her family." Thus Lansing P. Shield, president of Grand Union Co., last week set forth the big goal of Grand Union. With 46 giant new stores to be opened this year, Shield will invade the provinces of the hardware and the drug stores, push forward into the catchall domain of the dime store, turn the modern supermarket into a junior self-service department store...