Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years in the soap business his father-in-law started in 1809. Sapolio itself, named by the Morgan family doctor, was not manufactured until 1869 by Enoch's three sons. Its world-cleansing career began in 1883, when a high-powered adman named Artemas Ward* was hired to push Sapolio sales. Adman Ward took a cake of greasy, gritty soap and put it in almost every grocery store in the U. S. He sent four salesmen to England at a time when virtually no one sent salesmen abroad. One of them was King C. Gillette, inventor of the safety...
Last week the $140,000,000 Florida Ship Canal, which southern Floridians claim will make the lower half of that State an arid waste, was back in the Washington news when it was discovered that President Roosevelt is apparently determined to push this project despite the House's refusal to appropriate money for it (TIME, Feb. 17). The President started this Atlantic-to-Gulf waterway with five million relief dollars, allotted $200,000 more when that ran out. Last month the House declined to appropriate $12,000,000 to keep the work going, on the legitimate ground that Congress...
...Kansas City, Cinemactress West's Manager James Timony was asked to comment on her current bickering with Paramount about her contract. Said he: "Lubitsch thought in his Hitler way he could push her around. ... In the end she pushed him around. . . . After all. she was in the show business before he thought of being. . . ." On his way to Europe for a honeymoon. Director Ernst Lubitsch replied as impudently as possible: "Try to push her around? . . . She's much too heavy. ... Of course she was in show business before I was. She's older than I am." Director...
...determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo is not to pin an opponent's shoulders to the mat but to: 1) make him touch ground with any part of his body other than his feet, or 2) push him out of the circular 12-ft. dirt ring. Since this usually takes less than a minute and Japanese wrestling matches last all day, most of the time is devoted to ceremonies in which sumo is the richest pastime in the world...
...Hamilton, Ont., a stray cat struggled so desperately against Inspector E. G. McDonald's efforts to push it into the lethal gas chamber that the static electricity in its fur exploded the gas. The explosion blew the chamber to bits and knocked out Inspector McDonald. The cat vanished...