Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joffre is the "ThickHeaded Marshal," if his many savage critics are to be believed. They concede that his phlegmatic refusal to be defeated at the Marne (after appalling losses) saved Paris. But they blame him for the still more titanic losses suffered by the Allies in their failure to push through the great Offensive of the Somme. Placid "Papa" Joffre is even now dictating his vindication, his book-and promises to spare no critic...
...meantime the explorers will have set up the six houses now stored on the City of New York. Using this village as a base, they will push by airplanes and sledges toward the South Pole, establishing camps 100 miles apart. From these, they can fly over a considerable portion of Antarctica's 5.000,000 square miles, studying many a curious problem. Geologists will have hunted fossils. Astronomers will have gazed at the beautiful aurora australis, southern counterpart of the aurora borealis (northern lights). Cameramen Willard Vander Veer and Joseph T. Ruckner will have filmed scenes for a gripping...
...Every Pole believes, on account of the present protection which the Government gives to industry, that the Premier is his special clerk. All my dear Ministers were pleased to push all their work on to me. For this reason I learned to hate the office. The only way of escape was by resignation. . . . However, I told the President I should be available for service in critical times. The control of international Polish policies still remains in my hands." The Prime Minister of the new Cabinet, formed last week, is Dr. Kazimir Bartel, previously Vice-Prime Minister. Marshal Pilsudski continues...
While makers of Camels, Lucky Strikes, Chesterfields, Old Golds, by means of well-organized advertising campaigns induce customers to demand their brands, Union Tobacco with very little advertising induces cigar store clerks to push its chief cigaret brand, Three Kings (first called Three Castles...
American Linseed has not tried to abandon flaxseed products. But ten years ago it began to develop a sideline. Just as American Cotton Oil (now Gold Dust) pushed its soaps, American Linseed began to make and push a line of foodstuffs-Nucoa Nut margarine, Best Foods mayonnaise, relish spreads, thousand island dressing, shortening, Bread & Butter pickle relish. On the Pacific Coast its Gold Medal mayonnaise is the favorite salad dressing. Of these food items American Linseed, said Chairman Robert H. Adams this spring, last year sold $17,000,000 worth. Last February the Atlantic & Pacific chain groceries alone sold...